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I like to be as informed as I can before I create an opinion about a given topic. Gods, life, cultures, people. Just because someone tells you ‘this is the way it is’ doesn’t mean that’s the way it has to be. That’s why there’s so many religions, languages, and jobs in the world. In most countries you can believe whatever you want.

Raising children is an example of something that can be done in such diverse ways. It isn’t taught to us in school, but we do learn a lot from the way our parents treat us when were kids. And, when we’re young, we think ‘I’m going to treat my kids much better (than I’m being treated)’. Though, when we get to be parents we realize our parents were just looking out for our best interests.

As I said at the beginning, getting advice from different sources about parenting is helpful to bringing up your children in the best possible way. Sure, when kids are at school there’s little a parent can do to guide them the way they’d like, but that’s why parents get to choose where their kids go to school.

Daddy Clay from DadLabs (subscribe) recently meet up with Po Bronson at the Texas Book Festival and briefly discussed some of the parenting topics mentioned in his book titled “NurtureShock: A New Thinking About Children“.

DadLabs is a great resource for new and experienced parents. There’s actually lots of resources for parents online, like Digital Dads or all the mommy bloggers of the Interwebs.

NurtureShock by Po Bronson can be purchased from Amazon and many other online retailers.

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