Why Is Parenting So Hard?

I've realized why parenting is so hard (at least for me).  In life there's usually a "right way" to do things.  There's a right way to follow a recipe, there's a right way to do your job, there's a right way to fill your car with gas.  But with parenting there's about 100 different ways to do everything, and each way could work fine for 100 other kids (and other mom's will ALWAYS try to tell you that their way is the best and ONLY way).  So you think, if I can't rely on other mom's to tell me the right way, I'll ask my doctor.  Wrong, they'll tell you 100 different things too.  Okay, so let's just ask the experts.  ERR!  You could spend your entire life reading a thousand books on parenting and get contradicting information from every single one.  (This is hilarious, but also frighteningly accurate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ava-neyer/i-read-all-the-baby-sleep-advice-books_b_3143253.html) What you start to understand as you get deeper and deeper into parenting is that every child is different, has a different temperament, has different requirements, responds differently to sleep training methods, eats differently, etc.  So you just have to do what you think is best.  But that's why it's so hard.  How do you ever know that the path you chose is the best path for your child?  You wonder if you're forever ruining your child because of the decisions you're making.  You end up doubting yourself at every turn, wondering if you should be trying something different.  If you should listen to the ten other moms telling you ten other paths to choose.  It's just hard.  Changing a million diapers, cleaning up spit-up, doing two loads of laundry a day, picking up all the toys off the floor every single night, pushing a stroller with two kids around all day . . . those are the easy things.