Lee Ann Womack thinks that parenting classes should be mandatory for kids in school these days.
She says that she was not prepared for motherhood and that natural was last thing she felt when she became a mother.
She said: “A lot of young people don’t even know (or consider) the very basics of child rearing and home keeping anymore. I can remember my mom handing me a toilet bowl brush and saying, ‘Today you’re going to learn to clean a toilet.’ The same with cooking dinner, hemming a garment, doing laundry, taking care of pets … I just don’t know if parents are as engaged now as they were when I was a kid.”
So she's saying that these things aren't innate, I couldn't tell.
She believes that communicating with your kids is the key to child/parent relationships.
“Listen to what they have to say as if they are teaching you something, because they will! I sometimes play a trick on myself if I’m feeling a little disconnected at that moment: I pretend that I’m talking to a girlfriend of mine. It’s not long before my daughter has me either riveted or dying laughing at something.”
I agree with both the classes and communication, it seems like the most important thing to have when parenting is common sense.
What say you? What is your best advice for young, first time parents?
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