Nowadays you’d be slapped with a fine quicker than you could say ‘please forgive my baby brain’. When it was time for mum and bub to head home from the hospital, baby was bundled up and placed gently in the car but there was no car seat! It was completely normal for someone to hold onto baby for the journey home. But what are some of the things you did in your parenting days that would raise eyebrows in the parenting world today? No baby capsule or car seat? No worries … It’s not uncommon for families today to be more spread out and new parents are quick to venture online - where there are thousands of sites - in search of an answer to their parenting question. Yet when you were raising your babies, you only had your parents or family friends to look to for advice and guidance. There are so many options for feeding, sleeping and disciplining babies and children today it’s surprising anything gets achieved at all. Let’s face it, you didn’t have the expansive list of parenting resources or apps that new parents have today. Naturally, when you look back at the things you did as parents in the ’70s and ’80s, one might wonder how on earth your children survived. Not only were people starting their families earlier (many women were married in their early-20s and starting to have babies by the time they were 25) but there was a more apparent laid-back approach to parenting. New parents nowadays are living in an entirely different era to the one you were raising your family in and there’s often been talk that children raised in the 1970s and ’80s had it made.
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