OK to Change Your Mind.

Tip #9 It's OK to change your mind in the middle

John and I were blessed to have Aunt Lori come for the day while we took the day off and spent it in a day long date. We started off at Barnes and Nobel and then on to the mall for some shopping! We then had lunch looked around some neighborhoods, and then back home to have a nap! It was wonderful.
While at B&N I was reading an article that I thought would be great for a tip of the day. So a couple of days ago I wrote about adjusting your daily schedule in small increments so you would be ready when the time change happened. That my blog friends was an ideal- a pipe dream- a wishful thought. Because what happened was- Gianna refused to have her schedule messed with. I tried to wait to feed her a snack and meals every day, but she has this problem when she is hungry- she cries- a lot!
So we ended up not being able to do it gradually. We put her to bed at old time Saturday night and she woke up at new time Sunday morning and we began our schedule as if the time change never happened. She is a little fussy today, but I am too- I miss that hour of sleep :)
So here is the tip: It's OK to change your mind about some aspect of parenting. We have so many choices today as parents and they can all seem good. It's OK to try something for a while and then find out that it doesn't work for you. Long term damage will not be done. Should you Ferber, Baby wise or Attachment parent? Should you do cloth or disposable? What about front or back sleeping? We can be caught up in fear that we HAVE to do it the right way.
We all have different personalities and there is a reason that God designed us that way. What works for me may not ALWAYS work, and it's OK to try something else and see if that fits our lives, and my child better.
Let go of the guilt and know that each day, "You do the best you can with the best you got."