Well if you asked mine, she'd say YES. I WAS NEVER WRONG. Just kidding, my mom's great. One of the best things I learned from her in fact was that you can't avoid making mistakes when you're a new parent and will keep making them now and then until the kids fly the coop.You're human!

You're absolutely right, lheyhey. Whatever we do, we do it with the best of intentions.

Knowing you're fallible takes a whole lot of guilt off your shoulders when you make the wrong choice or some kind of accident happens because you took your eyes off them for two minutes. Don't let all the supermoms kid you - even they've messed up at one time or another. They just don't admit to it.

Silly really, because you find once you confess to making a mistake you've been agonizing over, other moms will say ” oh, I did that!” or ” let me tell you a worse one!” LOL.

Until the day babies come out with a “how to be a perfect parent” DVD attached to their umbilical cord, that's how it's going to be.

I agree Nazreen, that is a very valuable lesson.  I think making mistakes and humbling yourself to admitting your mistakes, brings people closer in trust.

I think it is also important as a mom, to open yourself to other parenting styles and the reality that there is no definte right way of parenting.  Bottle fed over breast fed, parents who co-sleep and parents who don't share a bed with their children, disposable diapers and cloth … each mom needs to find out what agrees with her way of thinking AND works for her baby.  I had a friend who was dead-set on breast feeding her children and when she finally had a child of her own, there were issues that prevented her from doing so.  She felt like such a failure because she had it in her head the breast fed was best … but when it came down to her situation, it just wasn't.  It took a while for her to see that what she thought was best was really circumstantial.  The best for HER child was not being breast fed.

I love that quote, Nazreen!  and it's so true.  Open minds bring great possiblities!