you know what? kids are not burdens but our bundle of joys. I've been reading post of mothers trying to ask advise on how to take care of their kids, how to discipline, how to deal their attitudes. Frankly, there is no perfect way of raising the child nor there are best guidelines for disciplining. As a mother of 5 for 25 years, I learned the techniques by my daily interactions with my kids. For babies, they tend to cling with the nearest human contacts they can have. Their source of grasping this new world depends on the first persons that surrounds them. I hope career will not be a barrier between you and your kid. For as they grow older, you will miss the moments they started crawling,walking, climbing & running. Their childhood memories should be filled with wholesome parental attendance. I believe the motherly instinct works and it I have proven it as years go by.

"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman