Perfect Parent

I have often wondered what a good parent is.  It seems that the longer I am a parent, the less I know about how to raise a child, knowing how to raise my own children is a day by day learning experience where the required knowledge and techniques are ever changing.  I have tried following advice given by other parents, with limited success,  every bit of advice has to be tailored to that child. I have given up trying to figure out how to deal with them as teens,  that bridge will be burnt crossed when we get there.

The seemingly best advise comes from perfect parents - that ones that have advice for every possible problem, but having never been a parent....  My wife received a video a while ago called "the happiest baby on the block".  This technique was developed by a pediatrician who does not seem to have his own children.  It basically involved tightly wrapping (not rapping though it might give you just as happy of a baby) or swaddling your baby and then making sure that any verbal noise the baby makes is immediately covered up by "Shooshing" which he calls simulating the sounds of the womb so that the baby is more comfortable.  The babies demonstrating the technique give such dirty looks that it is quite obvious that the baby is not happy, just intimidated into making no sounds.

I guess the way to tell if we've been good parents is if our children let you see our grandchildren and would like to raise them themselves.