Rules of Everything

THE RULES OF PARENTING

With six children it’s easy to see why parenting jumped out at me as an area of life which is full of helpful Rules, if only we know what they are. By this point I’d been watching other parents – and making plenty of mistakes of my own – for well over 30 years. I’d observed patterns of behaviour, helpful and otherwise, for decades. I met parents of my youngest child’s friends behaving just the same way as parents I’d encountered when my eldest was a toddler. I’d learnt loads from other parents that I’d had the chance to put into practice myself. I’d tried out lots of Rules I’d observed, and found that things went better when I remembered to use them.

They famously say there’s no book that tells you how to be a parent. ...