Ask HN: What’s your approach to raising kids?
by jascination on Hacker News.
Worth saying up front: This isn’t for a startup idea or anything like that, just keen to learn from the more-stable-than-Reddit minds of HN so I can get ideas for myself. We have twin girls who are ~6mo old, and we’re finally getting out of the “survival” stage and getting to the “parenting” stage. I’m finding that there are so many different schools of thought about absolutely everything, from pregnancy/birth to sleep training to Montessori to gentle parenting. Specific things I’m curious about: – Did you think about what sort of parent you’d like to be and work backwards?
– Did you think about what makes a good kid and work backwards?
– Did you align with a “style” of parenting?
– How did you use technology to help you?
– Did you keep your kids away from technology (like watching TV) for the first couple of years or just go for it?
– What would you do differently if you had your time again?