When David and Victoria Beckham were recently criticized by parenting experts for allowing their 4-year-old daughter to have a pacifier, David took to social media to set the record straight.
“Why do people feel they have the right to criticize a parent about their own children without having any facts?? Everybody who has children knows that when they aren’t feeling well or have a fever you do what comforts them best and most of the time it’s a pacifier so those who criticize think twice about what you say about other people’s children because actually you have no right to criticize me as a parent,” said Beckham.
His response garnered over 600,000 likes on Instagram and more than 23,000 comments encouraging him in his efforts to be a great dad.
Isn’t it interesting how people can take a snapshot in time and make assumptions that may or may not be correct?
“The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish,” a parenting book by pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and child psychiatrist Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan, lists seven basic needs of children: nurturing relationships, physical safety and security, opportunities based on individual personality, developmentally appropriate experiences, rules and expectations, a supportive community and cultural continuity, and future protection.