Nana's Guide to Child Raising
The birth of our first grandchild prompted the generation of Nana’s Guide to Child Raising . The fail-safe advice it contained enabled my wife to provide helpful answers to all five of our children and their spouses as they dealt with the complexities of child training for our thirteen grands. “I set him down for fifteen seconds and he started eating dirt,” one of our daughters would explain. Nana’s Guide provided the perfect answer—“He won’t do that when he is sixteen.” “She won’t sleep through the night and refuses to nap,” another would complain. “She won’t do that when she is sixteen,” came the reply from the Guide . “Potty training is impossible. What are we going to do?” “They won’t have that problem when they are sixteen.” Nana’s Guide may be the shortest parenting guide ever produced. But it agrees with that biblical phrase often taken out of context, “this too shall pass.” The trials and tribulations of raising children will not last f