Do you compare your parenting skills with other parents?

I do compare how I discipline and teach my son with other parents too. However, not in the point that I will criticize them. Sometimes, just giving them some tips too on how I do it. I think everyone have their own way of parenting depending on kid's attitude since every kid is also different even they are siblings and even twins.

I think it is a human tendency to feel that grass is greener on the other side. Many of us feel that they are suffering the most, that is why these category of people discuss such issues with others. We also discuss with others but we do not undermine or under estimate our children.

I sometimes compare myself to other parents but I don't really worry about it because I know that what works for one child might not work for another. I can't parent my active, extroverted child in the same way my friend parents her clever, practical child. But I try to look at how other parents raise their kids and take what will work for my child.

Hello! Sometimes we parents worried to our children especially when they are growing older. Sometimes we look to our children much wiser than us. In this situation for me asking my friends who also parents is good. Sometimes our ideas is not fit or sometimes their idea is good. Yes I compare my style to other parents because i want to know deeper on a particular style. The good in comparing is that you can rate your style if it is good or not, or fit or not to your child.

I don't yet have children. However, I expect that when and if I ever do, I will talk with other parents in my community about parenting tips and tricks. It just seems a natural thing to do--compare notes, get advice, seek support. However, I am certain that I will have my own style of parenting, just as I have my own sense of style when it comes to clothing or my own (eclectic) taste in music. Children are individuals, and what works in one household won't necessarily work in another.

I don't care about other parents or how they raise their children, so no I don't complare myself to their style. Especially not because my children are way more intelligent, have complete other interests as kids of their age, they are very creative and so am I and is the rest of our family. So we live in our own creative world. I can't stand complaining, gossiping people and always stayed away from these kind of parents. I will also never understand how parents can spend whole day being bored or lying on the sofa watching tv. Personally I don't think raising is hard if you know yourself plus what you will accept and what not. You raise from the moment a kid is born, you don't start at a certain point. And what means discipline? I can't stand that word and it sounds as if your kids are joining the army. Creative people have a creative mind, need space to invest, think, feel... you can't discipline everything. The only thing I expect my kids to do is to live a happy life, live it the way they want, to be as creative as possible (this way they can express their feelings) and treat people the same way as they treat them. My kids have responsibilities (includes the 9 and 6 year old ones) but not only that. If you expect them to be responsible they also have rights. What they all have is the right to say what is on their mind, to say when I am wrong, or one of the others, without any punishment or sanctions. It works fine for us. They all are very polite, attentive and helpfull.. too attentive and polite and helpfull in most times.

I do find myself at times comparing my parenting styles to other parents I know. For instance, a friend of mine has an 11 year old son and he lets his son watch just about any movie he wants regardless of the rating as well as lets him stay up until sometimes midnight. Personally, I would never let my son stay up that late especially on school nights or watch movies that weren't appropriate for his age but it's not really my place to tell him how to raise his child. I wouldn't say that my parenting skills or style is any better or any worse than another parents, just very different at times. It's definitely beneficial to compare notes with other parents though and I'm always open for new ideas on how to go about doing things.

Parenting is difficult when you are not willing to learn for yourself about it, i dont know about others but before i was married i prepare myself for parenting even since i was on my teens, i am watching talkshows where mothers talk about their experiences and i listen to the mothers that i know of how they were a parent to their children and take notes at my head... And until now as a young parent, i am still learning from other parents or mother of how they are as parents how they do this and that, and if there's an opportunity to share my experience, i would share it...