Following up on this, the opening paragraph to the Freakonomics chapter on parenting talks about how, as a new parent, your IQ drops 10 points and all sorts of

Following up on this, the opening paragraph to the Freakonomics chapter on parenting talks about how, as a new parent, your IQ drops 10 points and all sorts of marketers will completely overwhelm you with the fear that you are doing something wrong with your kids. Take your kids to the doctor regularly and you'll be okay. If you are doing something that 80% of the rest of society is doing and it turns out to be a subtle mistake, there will still be lots of people around you who made the same mistake and will help you figure out how to recover. Relax. Enjoy your kids! They'll turn into teenagers before you know it.