| Everyone has different parenting styles. What works | | | | night. But the problem is that life is just not that |
| for one couple doesn't necessarily work for the next. | | | | predictable. Perhaps it would be better if it were but it's |
| Taking responsibility for the duties of caring for a | | | | not. |
| newborn infant should be one in which both parents do | | | | I am by no means a parenting expert but I am a |
| their fair share. The way in which those duties are | | | | parent of four children and I found it easiest to be |
| handled is unique to the particular family. | | | | versatile when it came to parenting. Tasks were not |
| One young couple that I know has decided to handle | | | | delegated to my husband or myself nor were shifts. |
| their parenting tasks by taking shifts. Although it is | | | | We had to be adaptable to varying circumstances and |
| certainly up to them to find solutions that work best for | | | | situations in our lives. If my husband was working at |
| their family, parenting in shifts just isn't practical. For | | | | the time, I handled the brunt of the parental |
| example, she takes the day shift whiles he takes the | | | | responsibilities. |