The Stapletons (Part II)

I love this list by Allison Reynolds about what mothers worry about:

If you . . .	then your child will . . .
breastfeed exclusively	never learn to sleep through the night or bond with your spouse.
formula feed exclusively	have their health forever compromised, probably enduring chronic ear infections.
practice sleep training	have feelings of abandonment for the rest of their life and never feel close to you.
practice co-sleeping	risk being suffocated every night and ruin your relationship with your spouse.
use disposable diapers	be part of the global environmental problem.
use cloth diapers	have a perpetual diaper rash and you will look like the neighborhood hippie.
send your child to public school	never get into a decent college.
send your child to a private, charter, or montessori school	be a snob and unable to relate to “normal” people.
homeschool	be socially awkward and never develop solid friendships with other children.
go back to work and hire a nanny	have all their first moments with someone else and not know who to call mommy.
stay at home	have a mother who isn’t modeling how to work in society and will grow up thinking the world revolves around them.
engage your child in educational play most of the day	never learn to think or act independently because of your helicopter-ing ways.
let your child play on their own and use their own imagination	fall several grade levels behind the children with more interactive mothers.
sign your child up for several well-selected extracurricular activities	miss out on their childhood by sitting in a car eating fast food while driving from one organized activity to another.
choose to forego extracurricular activities	fail to develop their innate talents and miss their calling in life.
give your children an allowance	become an entitled brat who doesn’t know how to work.
make your child earn everything on their own	think of you as a task master and resent you for never cutting them any slack.

Isn't this the truth!  Instead of focusing on the positive of our choices, we can easily see possible future negatives.  This article was about trying to stop worrying.   Allison encourages mothers to make the best decisions they can and then commit themselves to them--worry free.   Hard to do.....but great advice!