Comments on: Is She a Good Baby? https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Seriously? https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-87434 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:40:46 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-87434 It is called small talk. Lots of energy must go into being annoyed with nice people who are kind enough to chat with you. Perhaps you should just snap at them what you are thinking and show your true colours – yours are a lot worse than the person innocently asking if your baby is good, much like we ask people we run into if they are well.

]]> By: Drew Tupper https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-81052 Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:33:09 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-81052 This is the truth…

Judging of our babies and each other starts the minute are babies are born. We need to flip this on it’s head…love and acceptance the minute our babies are born.

]]> By: Abby McTomney https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-81035 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 13:50:49 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-81035 I was explaining exactly this point to my mum recently! One of my pet eye roll moments. I always reply to people ‘He’s very contented’ if I don’t think it’s worth taking further in conversation. It is totally endemic though, even amongst people I think don’t really believe babies are ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Language matters though, it really does.

]]> By: Parenting with Radical Acceptance | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-70337 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 08:22:02 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-70337 […] We let go of what society tells us children ‘should’ be, our own ideas of what a ‘good‘ child is, our biased hopes for the future adult they will become, and any labels we have […]

]]> By: Why Manners Cannot Be Forced (And What To Do Instead) | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-37057 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:20:36 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-37057 […] we’re so focused on what a ‘good’ child is, that we don’t see the amazing little people in front of us. We can notice every missed […]

]]> By: Angeline Walker https://happinessishereblog.com/is-she-a-good-baby/#comment-32226 Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:06:58 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=7812#comment-32226 I have just recently found your happinessishere blog. Its great, Mum of 7 and I find it a full on challenge and needing some tools to help me. Finding it hard to keep cool more often then not so was great finding you. So I read and work on it.

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