{"id":2168,"date":"2015-07-02T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/littlebrowne\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2015-07-02T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:22:28","slug":"luck-vs-parenting-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/littlebrowne\/2015\/07\/02\/luck-vs-parenting-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck vs. Parenting Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I had gone on Facebook and shared a photo of Sammy<\/a> and mentioned that he had the first official cold of his life (he\u2019s over 2.5 years old) someone asked what we owe that to. Truth is\u2026I don\u2019t know. Is it luck or does it have something to do with the decisions we\u2019ve made?<\/p>\n

My response was that it was probably a lot of luck mixed in with some of our parenting decisions. He\u2019s been a healthy kid for over 2.5 years now. We also know that could all change tomorrow<\/span>. He started sleeping through the night at about 4 months old. My assumption is that won\u2019t change tomorrow<\/span>. Overall he has a really fun, friendly, cooperative personality. I hope that doesn\u2019t change tomorrow<\/span>.<\/p>\n

So how much does luck have to play into it? I really don\u2019t know and nobody does. The only thing I can say is when it comes to how we choose to parent him I feel we are open minded and try to make common sense decisions.<\/p>\n

We have always pushed healthy food but have allowed things like animal crackers, graham crackers, and frozen corn dogs into our lives because, well\u2026it\u2019s easy. I will say this though. The kid eats a TON of fruits and vegetables, daily! He also eats more sushi than I do\u2026yes, the raw stuff. He drinks water and only water. No soda, juice, or milk.<\/p>\n

Oh, and before I forget I should say that we are VAXXERS. He has had ALL vaccinations up to this point. I say that proudly. I\u2019m not knocking the anti-vaxxers but our kid has had all of them and still seems relatively normal at this point.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also active. We get him out and about every day. We don\u2019t hit him. There is a lot of laughter in our house\u2026especially when we have friends over\u2026which we do often. He\u2019s had a lot of time with me since I was the work from home parent until recently when Annie started working from home more. He gets a lot of both of us.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t gone to daycare until about 2 or 3 weeks ago when we put him in the gym daycare where Annie goes to work out. That said he has been out and about a lot\u2026to wineries, restaurants, parks, etc. That simply means that yes, he has not been exposed to the melting germ pot of an all-day daycare but the kid has been exposed to a lot of other crap and not been sick.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. Luck? Sure. Parental decisions? I can\u2019t answer that because I don\u2019t like taking credit for anything good. I just know that the fact he only chooses to drink water and nothing else, in my opinion, is super darn healthy. Soda and juice are all sugar and the human body doesn\u2019t like all that. So who knows\u2026all we can do is keep doing what we\u2019re doing and be thankful that he has been so healthy.<\/p>\n

We have plenty of friends that have not had our experience and it pains us to know what they\u2019ve had to go through. All any of us can do is take it all in stride and do what feels right for our individual families in the moment. Parenting is hard enough without the weight that other parents put on us. You\u2019re doing good\u2026give yourself a pat on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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