Finding a parenting style that's right for you

Unconventional Mom Traci Cummings discusses the benefits of finding the parenting style that is right for you and your family, even if it's not what the parents around you are doing or in accordance with how you were raised.
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Finding a parenting style that's right for you

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I think through this journey I realized that I was going to be the same parent that my parents were. When I recognized me doing those same things, I sought out other resources, other strategies, to deal with these issues, so that I didn’t go into my knee-jerk reaction of how I was raised and this is how you deal with things. And it took a while. It took a while to learn these different strategies, to change the way that I was thinking about it. But it’s completely worth it. It’s completely worth it.

Unconventional Mom Traci Cummings discusses the benefits of finding the parenting style that is right for you and your family, even if it's not what the parents around you are doing or in accordance with how you were raised.

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Traci Cummings

Unconventional Mom

Traci Cummings is a divorced, self-described unconventional mom of two children, ages seven and five.  When she isn't preparing meals, cleaning up or playing card games with her children, she is busy trying to spread the word about babywearing.  Traci – who is a strong advocate of breastfeeding, the family bed and instinctual parenting – believes her children are the teachers providing daily lessons to further her practice as a parent.

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I think through this journey I realized that I was going to be the same parent that my parents were. When I recognized me doing those same things, I sought out other resources, other strategies, to deal with these issues, so that I didn’t go into my knee-jerk reaction of how I was raised and this is how you deal with things. And it took a while. It took a while to learn these different strategies, to change the way that I was thinking about it. But it’s completely worth it. It’s completely worth it.