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I love it when they do this. I hear mine schooling each other constantly, they're practically raising each other by this point 😂

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so it’s not actually an issue of either or, but a case of both and all.

even as other scientists have come out like “uh, actually…” and have, as a result, continued to carry out behaviourist methods of yore, as well as continuing to debate nature vs nurture, even though we now know that one informs the other

“don’t show your children affection it’s unsanitary” and “put that baby down you’re spoiling it.” Despite the lack of actual evidence, and despite the common sense I’m sure the housewives of the time could have imparted, many people have believed for a long time in the empty baby thing,

(These researchers quite clearly hadn’t.) Taking as much a hold of the zeitgeist as long dead rumours that animals feel no pain, this theory influenced later psychological movements, notably behaviourism, which was largely responsible for such things as cry it out,

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4/ Bounceback culture is pervasive and it will eat your soul if you pay too much attention to it – try to focus on what an amazing thing your body just did instead of how soon you can get back into your jeans. That jean cut is out of fashion now, anyway, so you may as well enjoy your joggers

2/ Your doctor is wrong, that ab separation won’t fix itself

3/ No I mean, really, if your doctor told you that, don’t listen. Mine said the same thing and my abs are still so separated they may as well get a divorce

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4/ Not all babies will go down drowsy but awake. Some go down drowsy then more alert than they’ve ever been in their entire lives, leaving your evening plans in tatters, unless your evening plans were to hang out with your baby

3/ Nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing some grub of a kid tell your precious angel that they don’t want to play with them. YOU SHOULD FEEL LUCKY THAT HE EVEN LOOKED AT YOU, TERENCE, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

(2/2) – more importantly – will scream at you less, which is worth a painful and potentially debilitating operation as a senior. That’s future you’s problem, live for the now

2/ The only way to survive multiple children if your oldest is still in the early years is to use a baby carrier. Your back will throb and you might need a hip replacement later in life but your children will feel loved and (1/2)

1/ People that knowingly make a lot of noise near sleeping children are dickheads. No exceptions, no take backsies

This looks... Disturbing