Practical v/s Theory ?

                                                      So there you are raising your three children , the best you know how , celebrating Christmas , organising birthdays , introducing them to school and the rest of the other bits and pieces that make up parenting .
                                                      You go to work and do whats expected of you to b ring home the bacon , and that bacon was at times not very lean , if you know what I mean ? Still it was our bacon and we made do the best we could . We got Santa to deliver the presents as we always did , and to be honest at times Santa wasn't very generous , he sometimes was a little short on what was expected by our children . But we managed , and no one was left with issues as a result . As far as I know !
                                                      The children do what children do , and of course you have the sibling rivalry thats always apparent in

 families . And you deal with this , you put on your understanding cap , and try not to be favouring any one child . Now that can be very hard , as not all children are the same , and some just need more attention than others . But it should never be too obvious , as you don't want to be accused of having favourites . I never had anyway , and thats the way I just felt it had to be . Always  one to get too emotional , I got on with my parenting as best I could , as we all know there were no books on how to raise children . No one  gave you a dvd and said , "This is what you do in the case of a baby getting sick " , we were novices , we were untrained care givers .
                                                      Now we have the opposite , there are dvd's for this , and dvd's for that , all telling you how to deal with children , and they all contradict each other . Now it seems its the norm to have children going to shrinks , being counselled by Psychologists , and in some cases on anti-depressants .Its too easy for a parent to just give up on a child and say , lets send her/him to a shrink their behaviour is just unacceptable !
                                                      In this day and age it seems , parenting skills are being taken away from the parents , they are being left in some cases with no other option but to hand their children over to these so called professionals to be taught life skills . Now to say I am not the best of people to talk about theory would be an understatement , I am more into the practical end of things . It seems to me there are a lot of so called professionals out there , dealing with children , who have no children themselves . Thats like going to a priest for sex education , knowing full well that he's a celibate man ! Practical v/s Theory , for me there's only one winner !