Commercial Real Estate - 3 Benefits to Investing
Buying commercial real estate can be a big step; there are some great benefits to getting into commercial real estate. By investing in properties other than single-family homes and residential properties, you give yourself the option to own such properties as apartment buildings and office space. This will give you multiple options and increased diversity on your investments and hopefully on your returns. This may seem like a daunting task getting into commercial investing and it is, however the following benefits may help make that transition much easier.nd as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembere

Our youngest child was born when the the rest of our clan were teen-agers. Having learned from our previous parenting experiences, we wanted to do things differently. And having known practicing midwives and practicing culturally authentic parenting ourselves (natural consequences, no shame, etc.,) we found Attachment Parenting closest to what we wanted for our newborn.

Our already vast knowledge of Attachment Parenting continued to grow as steadily as my pregnancy. We knew, for example, that our baby would sleep in our bed, that I would breast-feed, that we would carry him in an infant sling throughout the day and keep him close. We knew (from our readings on Attachment Parenting and seeing it in other children,) that children who are nursed, who are held and cuddled and not left to sleep alone, would naturally be less cranky and irritable, less stressed, and have a pleasant disposition because all his needs were met and he knew and trusted that he was safe.

At first our plan went beautifully. He was quiet when held, he was happy to nurse, and when he woke in the middle of the night to eat he knew he wasn’t alone in the bed. He would reach out to touch us, as if to check that we were really there. It was sweet, and amazing.

It was a week later that we realized our son did not know we were using Attachment Parenting. He didn’t know he was supposed to be content, that our presence was supposed to reassure him. Maybe we were supposed to read those books to him.

First the doctors thought he was colicky. He wasn’t. Perhaps he had a problem with reflux. He didn’t. He might need an earlier bedtime. He didn’t. Maybe a later one? No. Let him sleep alone, then. Only he wouldn’t. It was amazing how willful our child was. How unrelenting he could be, even in the face of our love, our nurturing, our style of parenting.

It turns out our son simply has a strong personality with a high degree of sensitivity to everything in his environment. So for years we slept in bed with him and he would literally wake himself up if he could not reach out with a hand or a foot and touch both his father and I. (He’s 4 now, and still checks that we’re in bed with him on the nights he sleeps there.) He has an affinity for my breasts, touching them in public (we weaned him at two and a half, when he was ready,) and will also nuzzle my chest and tell me they are his. (Maybe I should have listened when the doctor said “wean him” at one year.)

Hardest of all to realize, he doesn’t have a strong sense of where he leaves off and where his father or I begin. So we are teaching him, along with a sense that there really are other people, things, and events in our world than him. And as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembered

ment Parenting and seeing it in other children,) that children who are nursed, who are held and cuddled and not left to sleep alone, would naturally be less cranky and irritable, less stressed, and have a pleasant disposition because all his needs were met and he knew and trusted that he was safe.

At first our plan went beautifully. He was quiet when held, he was happy to nurse, and when he woke in the middle of the night to eat he knew he wasn’t alone in the bed. He would reach out to touch us, as if to check that we were really there. It was sweet, and amazing.

It was a week later that we realized our son did not know we were using Attachment Parenting. He didn’t know he was supposed to be content, that our presence was supposed to reassure him. Maybe we were supposed to read those books to him.

First the doctors thought he was colicky. He wasn’t. Perhaps he had a problem with reflux. He didn’t. He might need an earlier bedtime. He didn’t. Maybe a later one? No. Let him sleep alone, then. Only he wouldn’t. It was amazing how willful our child was. How unrelenting he could be, even in the face of our love, our nurturing, our style of parenting.

It turns out our son simply has a strong personality with a high degree of sensitivity to everything in his environment. So for years we slept in bed with him and he would literally wake himself up if he could not reach out with a hand or a foot and touch both his father and I. (He’s 4 now, and still checks that we’re in bed with him on the nights he sleeps there.) He has an affinity for my breasts, touching them in public (we weaned him at two and a half, when he was ready,) and will also nuzzle my chest and tell me they are his. (Maybe I should have listened when the doctor said “wean him” at one year.)

Hardest of all to realize, he doesn’t have a strong sense of where he leaves off and where his father or I begin. So we are teaching him, along with a sense that there really are other people, things, and events in our world than him. And as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembere

dn’t know he was supposed to be content, that our presence was supposed to reassure him. Maybe we were supposed to read those books to him.

First the doctors thought he was colicky. He wasn’t. Perhaps he had a problem with reflux. He didn’t. He might need an earlier bedtime. He didn’t. Maybe a later one? No. Let him sleep alone, then. Only he wouldn’t. It was amazing how willful our child was. How unrelenting he could be, even in the face of our love, our nurturing, our style of parenting.

It turns out our son simply has a strong personality with a high degree of sensitivity to everything in his environment. So for years we slept in bed with him and he would literally wake himself up if he could not reach out with a hand or a foot and touch both his father and I. (He’s 4 now, and still checks that we’re in bed with him on the nights he sleeps there.) He has an affinity for my breasts, touching them in public (we weaned him at two and a half, when he was ready,) and will also nuzzle my chest and tell me they are his. (Maybe I should have listened when the doctor said “wean him” at one year.)

Hardest of all to realize, he doesn’t have a strong sense of where he leaves off and where his father or I begin. So we are teaching him, along with a sense that there really are other people, things, and events in our world than him. And as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembere

terally wake himself up if he could not reach out with a hand or a foot and touch both his father and I. (He’s 4 now, and still checks that we’re in bed with him on the nights he sleeps there.) He has an affinity for my breasts, touching them in public (we weaned him at two and a half, when he was ready,) and will also nuzzle my chest and tell me they are his. (Maybe I should have listened when the doctor said “wean him” at one year.)

Hardest of all to realize, he doesn’t have a strong sense of where he leaves off and where his father or I begin. So we are teaching him, along with a sense that there really are other people, things, and events in our world than him. And as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembere

nd as we teach him things he might have picked up sooner with another parenting style, we’re grateful he’s able to communicate with us and understand more of what we’re telling him. At 4 he understands that his body is his, including all his parts. He usually remembers that my body is mine. And when we tell him he’s safe and talk to him about his fears I know that he wouldn’t have understood these things and that he would have cried and screamed that much louder and harder from a bed separate from us.

Had we to do it all over again, would we? Yes. We would have offered him boundaries in more creative ways than we learned of from the books. And we would have remembered that while he did (and does) need to feel safe, he also needed to learn that he was safe even when we left the room.

Of course there were challenges and struggles. There always are, no matter what parenting style you use, even when you're meeting your child’s needs and supporting his emotional growth. I worried I’d be nursing him ’til he was 10 and my husband thought he’d never get to sleep on more than six inches of bed. Attachment Parenting is still about meeting our child’s needs as they arise, allowing his temperament and personality to define what he needs and how to meet them. It was an easy decision to make (of course we want to meet his needs and help him feel secure and loved and ready at each new milestone,) but a very difficult one to follow through on. Even as I write this he is sleeping near me. He still climbs into our bed whenever he wants to read or cuddle or sleep with us (and we allow it.) We pay attention to his own rhythm and help his schedule fit into our schedule. Attachment Parenting, it seems, is easy to adapt to your life. It’s the first 3 years that are the hardest.