What parenting choices did you make based on experts?

studies done by doctors, scientists, lawyers, judges, astronauts, whatever other important people out there that have two cents on just about everything.


what percentage would you say make up those choices?What parenting choices did you make based on experts?
None, I did what I did and started researching later. I had no idea there were so many issues about child care.What parenting choices did you make based on experts?
Lots of choices to limit certain things in my eldest daughters diet to help control her ADD that I found from scientific backing. I continued because I noticed it worked.


I've also used methods of communication when dealing with my kids from books I read when they were little. Not all suggestions.. but just some that I agreed with.





I would say based on my children's health, I use about 70% of advice of their doctors. But you know, my daughter has some health issues that require cooperation. Some times, I find better ways or better doctors.. so I have to take off 30% for that.





Based on my general parenting, I would say 15% is based off expert advice that I've tried and liked. About 40-50% is based off what I have learned from my sister who has kids just a few years older than me and the rest is my gut instinct- which has a tendency to trump all.
lol. 100% of my parenting choices were based on the opinion of lawyers or scientists. well, one of each, actually.





but if you mean those outside my immediate family ... i know it's popular to say that everything is about instinct and ';experts'; are silly. i do agree that experts are very often silly, but i also believe that statistics in a well-designed large-scale study are worth thinking about. so yes, i'll use fact-based studies when appropriate (for example, when deciding what medications to give my children, whether to immunize them, at what weight to take them out of the carseat, etc.). and i'm also interested in data about things like what becomes of kids who watch large amounts of tv or drink from sippy cups with bpa or were the youngest in their class or were in an all-boy class or things like that. information gathered over a large population is interesting to me and more compelling than mere anecdote (though less compelling than what know to be true about my own particular child)





as a percentage of the hundreds of parenting choices we all make in a day, i suppose it's quite low. maybe 1% or less. but i use it, nevertheless.
solely on expert opinions, none, but I have considered facts based on experts studies and statistics when making my own decisions. I've never made a decisions solely on one thing or another but more of a combination of my own knowledge, experiences working with children, and studies and statistics found by experts that seem to me to make sense.
I suppose I put my child to sleep on their backs...occasionally. But I mostly listen to my mother and sister`s advice.
I honestly can't think of any. Except perhaps vaccinations - after all, I can't personally research the risks and benefits of them. But even then, it was mostly about how my own personal instincts made me feel about it.
I used to do this. Then I realized that it's better to do what works. Everything I do will be criticized by someone out there so I am gonna do what I think is right. Screw the yahoo's....lol.
None.


Only I know whats best for my son. Each child is an individual, and what may work for one child/parent, may not work for another.
The only parenting choices I've made based on an expert is myself
I second Cali. Perfect answer.
Myself, my husband and my in-laws are the only people I truly allow a major influence in my decisions, and our decisions as a team of parents. Like-minded parents that I talk to through groups or online can definitely change my mind or make me think differently about some things, but I'll always value my instinct, my husbad's instinct, and his parents' instincts and views more than someone outside the family's.





We follow a very similar philosophy and parenting style as my in-laws did with my husband, they were about 30 years ahead of their time I think, and I'm forever asking them, ';what would you do if____? What did you do when Jason _________?';


They have really great advice, and I usually get an amusing or embarrassing story about my husband and/or my brother-in-law out of it too.





I don't make decisions solely based on what they say, but it does influence me. I couldn't put it into percentage.

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