Mutually Exclusive Parenting Advice

One of the baffling things in parenting is trying to make sense of conflicting schools of advice.

It seems to me that any of these schools of thought, applied by capable adults, can give good results. People who resonate with a method can often carry it out skillfully.

One thing a lot of these methods emphasize is that you must stick to them strictly. Methods that rely on consistency (which I think is great and important!) mean that you shouldn’t expect good results if you’re inconsistent.