Reply #53: I may have been lucky - but so were my contemporaries, or most of them. [View All]

[BlueMTexpat]

It may have had a lot to do with the era (the 50s & 60s), the fact that we all had incentives to encourage our kids to get out of diapers the sooner the better, that most of us were from families of 4-5 siblings ourselves and had either learned from older siblings or taught younger ones (peer pressure/example can work wonders, IMO), that we ourselves were younger as parents (I had my children at 22 and 23 - my daughters-in-law were both in their late 30s) and didn't feel that we had to measure up to hundreds, even thousands of "experts." The only book available to me was Dr. Spock, who never made me feel guilty because his approach was primarily practical, pragmatic and full of common sense.