
Mamamia’s Five Golden Rules series takes a pervy look into the lives of Australian families. From parents of toddlers to parents of teenagers, the series asks parents to share their golden parenting rules, including the rules for their kids, and rules to just get through each day.
This week, a father of twins shares his Five Golden Rules for parenting.
Real talk: There’s no one way to successfully parent.
And if there were some magical parenting philosophy that guaranteed your children would turn out to be perfect, well, wouldn’t we have a parenting bible by now? Wouldn’t we have all agreed - many decades ago - on the one guaranteed way to not screw up our children?
We definitely would have. And we didn’t - and won’t - because it’s impossible.
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We all know that each child (parent, grandparent, town and country) is so drastically different that expecting all families to follow a similar set of "rules" would be a global disaster.
But over the course of the previous four years, I’ve developed a set of parenting principles that not only guide me as I attempt to keep my boy-girl twin toddlers alive, but also feel universal enough that any parent would benefit from spending some time with them.