Teacher-Turned-Mom

 For the last three years I've been obsessed with the idea of "good" parenting and taken all the actions a "good" parent takes--joined blogs, googled every minute detail, consulted family, crowd-sourced with other parents-of-toddlers, read books, re-read books, abandoned resources and followed my gut, went to the zoo enough times the guards knew us, yadda-yadda-yadda. As a teacher, there were plenty of instructional "how-tos" available at the click of a button. When I needed something, I knew where to go or who to ask. But where do you go to learn the "strategies" to "Parent Like a Champion"? Can they exist at home if they exist for a space that is akin to a second home for children.

 I'm on a mission to try all my teacher moves on my three-year-old and the point of this blog is to report my findings. Some of it is probably intuitive. Some of it might be culture specific. Some of it might be useless. But I won't know what works until I try.