Parenting
fromPsychology Today
8 hours agoThe Pressure to Be a Perfect Parent
New parents face intense pressure from widespread advice and should focus on doing their best, accepting imperfection and asking for help when needed.
Take, for example, advice that will supposedly change your brain chemistry, courtesy of someone who is definitely not a neuroscientist. Or my nutrition rules, from a dewy, gen Alpha sylph who doesn't realise what they actually have is a teenager's metabolism. Or 45 things you need to understand about a place from someone who has spent 45 minutes there. Endless lists of the bleeding obvious: eat intuitively, embrace nature, exercise compassion, remain curious, be childlike, contact friends, put down your phone,