To want to know your opinions on what makes a parenting expert?

[FlamingoBingo]

Can someone be an 'expert' in parenting - ie. someone to whom people come to for advice about parenting - if they are not themselves parents?

If so, why?
If not, why not?

Go on - fight it out. Really, really would love to hear your opinions!

I think so Flamingo.

I think there are some things that people really don't understand until they have experienced them themselves, but there are other things that you can be an "expert" in without having actually experienced it first hand IMO.

Well, obviously it's someone I agree with, preferably myself.

[hsmile]

I would say that it someone with common sense. You don't have to agree with everything they say, different things suit different personalities. I would say that Tanya Byron is full of common sense.