I've been a mother for 22 years and a daycare mom for ten years (second mom to over fifty kiddos) yet I still often feel that I don't have all the answers.....or, to be quite honest, any of the answers regarding parenting. I often feel with each new baby that enters my home, I'm learning it all over again. Each child is so extremely different from the next. Yet there are a few things I've picked up along the way. Me and my Princess, approximately 1994 When I had my first child, I was so young and naive. A group of women from church gave me a baby shower. During the shower, each guest wrote a piece of motherly advice on note cards. I distinctively remember one. It said, "Fruit spoils, babies don't." I took this advice and ran with it. I was so excited that someone had just given me the go-ahead to lavish attention and gifts onto my little princess. As well meaning as this advice was, I now disagree. Babies can be spoiled. Spoiled to the point w...