Babysitting as a kid gave me all kinds of valuable experience that it's so weird to see many of my friends trying to build for the first time as they're becoming parents. Even beyond never having held a baby, made a bottle, changed a diaper before doing so for your own kid, I think babysitting made me emotionally resilient for the challe…
Babysitting as a kid gave me all kinds of valuable experience that it's so weird to see many of my friends trying to build for the first time as they're becoming parents. Even beyond never having held a baby, made a bottle, changed a diaper before doing so for your own kid, I think babysitting made me emotionally resilient for the challenges of caretaking. Like yeah, sometimes babies are just gonna cry for no reason-- you're not doing anything wrong, it's just what babies do, you've just gotta soothe them as best you can. I recently met my boss colicky three month old daughter and she was FLOORED that I was perfectly happy to bop around with a fussy baby all afternoon without getting flustered. Having to develop comfort with that while also dealing with the mindfuck that is becoming a first time parent seems daunting as shit.
Babysitting as a kid gave me all kinds of valuable experience that it's so weird to see many of my friends trying to build for the first time as they're becoming parents. Even beyond never having held a baby, made a bottle, changed a diaper before doing so for your own kid, I think babysitting made me emotionally resilient for the challenges of caretaking. Like yeah, sometimes babies are just gonna cry for no reason-- you're not doing anything wrong, it's just what babies do, you've just gotta soothe them as best you can. I recently met my boss colicky three month old daughter and she was FLOORED that I was perfectly happy to bop around with a fussy baby all afternoon without getting flustered. Having to develop comfort with that while also dealing with the mindfuck that is becoming a first time parent seems daunting as shit.