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Hello from Wallas WV
I am so excited to see people chatting in the forum! I am a newer mom with lot's of advice being thrown my way. Honestly I am finding most of it overwhelming and a bit much. When I saw unique parenting I was interested! I am mostly a stay at home mom with the occasional need to get a job to help make ends meet. I am currently studying Bookkeeping with the goal to work from home as an independent contractor.
I want to help supplement income so we can meet at both ends with a little slack in the middle but my husband and I both firmly believe that one parent should be home raising children, and that is their job. I take great pride in my role as a mother (maybe I shouldn't be so proud?) and love raising our daughter more than anything else.
We live in a small little city out in an isolated rural area of WV. The scenery is beautiful here and we are not bogged down by the busy streets found in other cities. Our main street consists of a Baptist church and 5 family houses! The nearest market is about 30 minutes away, well there is a mini market 15 minutes down the street if you really need something now. It is a quiet area and everyone knows everyone (most of them are related) I think it is a great area to raise our daughter.
I am looking forward to getting to know everyone here. Thank you Mikki for providing this forum!
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Hello! How nice to see someone else from WV. I've never heard of Wallas, what part of the state is that? I did a Google Map search, but they can't find Wallas either! Cheesy
I understand about getting too much parenting advice with your first child. My mom tells a funny story about when her first child was baby. She was sitting on the porch with her neighbor in the fall. She had a sweater on her baby, who was about four months old. The neighbor said, "I can't believe you've got a sweat on her. You'll burn her up!" So my mom started to take the sweater off. The neighbor said, "Don't take that off of her! You'll freeze her to death!" My poor mom was so confused, lol.
My single piece of parenting advice is: Do what feels right for you and your baby!
JaMae-I hear you on everyone giving you advice. I can't even begin to tell you how much criticism I got from my in-law's over how I raise my children. In fact, even today my MIL expressed her concern that I want to send my son to a school that teaches from a Classical Christian philosophy (she was a public school teacher). It used to make me so mad that she thought she had some sort of say in these decisions. I come from a family that is really supportive of whatever choices I make. I've learned to roll with things and realize that I'm the parent and I make the decisions, but in his first 2 years of life I had a lot of insecurities over my parenting abilities when I was around the in-law's. Cindy is completely right, listen to your baby. If it works for you guys, do it and phooey on the naysayers. That's why you get to be the mom Grin. No one loves that little one more than you do