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The term "expert" causes a fallacy that parenting is a skill that can be mastered.
Research demonstrates that parents struggle to trust their parenting decisions due to external pressures.
Expertise in different areas of parenting does not mean someone understands your child better than you do.
I am going to say something controversial. There is no such thing as a child expert. Even further, there is no such thing as a parenting expert.
Calling someone a child expert is a flawed statement. Children are fallible, inconsistent, and unique. Children are human. And no one has ever called themselves a “human expert.”
This statement may seem strange coming from me. I have spent almost a decade working with children and families as a play therapist, I have a Ph.D. in counselor education with a concentration in play therapy, and I spend a lot of my time supporting, studying, and writing about parents. I may have expertise in child development, parenting strategies, and children's mental health, but I am not an expert on children or parenting.
I have recently begun to grow my following on social media, and an........