What's up with that?

It is always amazing to me how some people think they have all the parenting answers. I wonder at the gall of parents to think that they have it so mastered that they are the ultimate source of knowledge and unsolicited advice for everyone else. Recently there has been a bit of controversy on Youtube about a video of parents giving they 4 month old 1 little PopRock candy piece. SO WHAT! It's one little piece and the kid clearly enjoyed it after the initial shock of the pop. It is not something to get all nuclear about. Where these people giving the kid a piece of crack rock or a taste of hydrochloric acid? No, it was a piece of candy.

Many people think that just because they are a parent it gives one the right to comment on everyone else's parenting decisions. Well no it doesn't. I don't remember reading that in the parenting handbook I received when my daughter was born. Oh wait, I didn't get a handbook! That could be because there are as many different parenting styles as there are children. If you are not feeding your child Draino or copious amounts of table salt, baking soda, or sugar straight from the bowl and they kid looks other wise happy and healthy then leave it be. We gave our daughter tastes of really sour dill pickles and lemons at that age and she is perfectly fine at the ripe old age of 3.

Sometimes it is much more well advised to take a look at the way you parent your child before you start pointing fingers at others. Parting is neither easy nor always rewarding and to have your abilities denigrated by another person is humiliating and disheartening. We need to stick together and worry about the people who actually are harming their children. Why don't we focus on the neglectful parents, the parents who abuse their children both emotionally and physically. How about the parent's that ignore and or degrade their children? Int he grand scheme of things a few PopRocks are really not that big of a deal.