Dear Abby: My new stepmother is glad to offer her opinions on parenting. Unfortunately, her advice generally is bad and often simply wrong and dangerous. Suggestions?
My husband and I had a baby right around the time my father remarried. I didn’t know my new stepmother very well when she started giving me parenting advice. The issue is, her convictions are not in line with mine and also conflict with the advice from the CDC or the American Academy of Pediatrics. Some examples: She insists breastfeeding is stunting the baby’s growth , that babies should be put to bed face-down and that holding a baby in a car is just as good as a car seat .
After hearing about that nursing experience one too many times, I asked her son about it, and it turns out she earned a nursing ASSISTANT degree via correspondence and failed twice before barely passing. She never worked as a nurse. Being direct with her hasn’t helped. Talking to Dad hasn’t helped . Walking away doesn’t help -- she follows me. What choice do I have, short of banning her from my house ?Because Dad refuses to accept that his bride has misrepresented herself, pray he stays in good health and doesn’t give her his power of attorney for health care. As to her unwanted and incorrect advice on childcare, listen, smile sweetly and exercise your option as a mother not to follow it.
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