By the way. Having a three year old sit through an entire opera seems strange. Children at that age don’t have that kind of attention span for biological reasons.
This seems wrong? I remember watching every Lord of the Rings movie (9 hours) at once around that age. It's five, not three, by the way.
The thing is, I believe, that all this trying to be the best parent in the world is contra-productive. Because being the best parent in the world, if you read online, seem to be based on completely the wrong criterias.
Why would the internet be the only place to get an idea on how to do parenting correctly?
Telling myself that it is ok for me to not constantly come up with new stimulating things to do.
This seems correct! Most children will come up with stimulating things to do on their own. The important thing for you to do is probably just teach them how to get the items they need to stimulate themselves, which is a small time-investment. It would be pretty harmful to always be picking every action they do.
You're probably doing fine, given the amount of thought you've put into it.
This seems wrong? I remember watching every Lord of the Rings movie (9 hours) at once around that age. It's five, not three, by the way.
The thing is, I believe, that all this trying to be the best parent in the world is contra-productive. Because being the best parent in the world, if you read online, seem to be based on completely the wrong criterias.
Why would the internet be the only place to get an idea on how to do parenting correctly?
Telling myself that it is ok for me to not constantly come up with new stimulating things to do.
This seems correct! Most children will come up with stimulating things to do on their own. The important thing for you to do is probably just teach them how to get the items they need to stimulate themselves, which is a small time-investment. It would be pretty harmful to always be picking every action they do.
You're probably doing fine, given the amount of thought you've put into it.