👓A View on Parenting an Only Child

It's more about the 'how' than the 'how many'

Adelina Vasile
Baby Steps In Big Shoes
8 min readAug 14, 2023

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Image by Blandine JOANNIC from Pixabay | Fun fact: Female orangutans usually give birth to a single baby approximately every eight years. That's one of the longest interbirth intervals among mammals.

Parenting an only child is like sailing a ship without a crew. You've got no sense of the wind, no deep understanding of the tides, no innate connection with the ocean's rhythms.

And you're supposed to confidently take shots for your kiddo while they huff and puff like… a singleton.

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Adelina Vasile
Baby Steps In Big Shoes

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself.