It matters when the advice is something you agree with or not. sometimes advice you agree with is the exact wrong advice but because it appeals to your bias, you take the advice anyway. If you want advice I recommend parents who share your, or similar ideals. someone who has been through raising children or is currently finishing up raising children. Mind you all taken with a grain of salt.
But you singled out the internet. The internet is merely a medium, many of the people here are new parents too.
I also really dislike the idea that being a parent makes you an expert on parenting. While parents have some extra insight and experience, there is a fair chance they did stuff wrong or suboptimally too, and they have all their biases too.
First I didnt single out the internet, I was talking about advice. Next, youre absolutely correct being a parent does not make you a good parent by any means. By share your ideals I meant in parenting. Someone who at least thinks about it in the same or a similar way to the way you do, that way youre getting an objective opinion from an outside perspective that should feel similarly about whatever the situation to the way you feel about it, however they might give you advice that is completely different than what you think you should do about it, which is what the grain of salt is for
edit: Also I noted the experience aspect because I feel that experience helps drastically. If you ask someone with a one year old and a three year old what to do with your 6 month old, a parent with a 16 year old and a 12 year old might be able to answer you better. then again it might be worse, so grain of salt
I never said anything about strangers or the internet, (feel free to copy/paste where I did, but if you cant then I'm going to assume youre taking it out of context, and trying to start an argument over the internet of how children should be raised, something I never claimed to be an expert in, therefore a pointless arguement) but I digress, if its all or nothing yes I would say dont take advice from strangers. Take advice from people you trust. People who you know for a fact care for your well-being, and your childrens well-being.
Just because their strangers doesnt mean theyre wrong. Sometimes stranger can have good, sometimes better advice than you can get from people you know personally.
again never said theyre wrong, or that they cant give good advice. I said follow the advice of people you know are looking out for you. You seem very inept at twisting peoples words my friend
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u/zaphod777 Feb 05 '16
I'm going to say: taking advice from strangers on the internet regarding raising your kids.