Golden Nugget Parenting Advice

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Golden Nugget Parenting Advice

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My golden nugget of parenting advice, if I were to distill it down to one thing, is probably just fill the tank. We know that filling the tank applies to their little bodies. From infants they let us know, "Feed me, feed me, feed me." But it also applies to our attention. They hunger for our attention, and on many evenings, if I take the time to play and chase and laugh with my sixteen month old before trying to make dinner, it makes all the difference. I give him a little bit of my attention and his little tank is full that much more, letting me do the things that I need to do. So that's my ultimate parenting nugget of wisdom - fill the tank.

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Heather Gibbs Flett co-founded RookieMoms.com, a website dedicated to helping women have more fun in the first years of motherhood, after discovering how intensely amazing, exhausting, boring, and delightful it was to become a mom. She was a bossy big sister, industrial engineer, and web producer before reinventing herself as a mother blogger. She lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and three sons. If Heather had any spare time, she would love to travel and see more live music.

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