@Mame,
Mame wrote:
Boomer, no offence, but you research child-rearing / parenting to death. I couldn't care less what this or that study says - the outcome depends on the study and the researchers. I've worked with many idiotic researchers in my time and have no faith in what researchers say unless I'm familiar with them or the studies have been peer-reviewed.
Edit: and for every study that says X, there's another one that says Y.
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But... this is all off-topic. I think you should just go with your instincts (instead of studies) unless you think you're way off. Every situation is different, and for different reasons. You and Mo are unique... do what's right for the two of you.
OMG I'm so glad you said this mame. If I said it I'd be on an even higher horse.
I guess some people have to read the directions when having to heat up a can of soup.
boom....don't you ever do anything about mo without reading what "experts" have to say....and what all the experts say?
sheesh.
There's such a thing as making another person overly reliant on you. Why not let mo figure out what he wants to do, and if it doesn't work out, or he screws up it's not the end of the world, and a learning experience for him. Might be an even more valuable/fun experience because it didn't involve someone hovering over him.
Whether you agree or not, you really give the impression you hover over everything the kid does and thinks.
You might, and I'm sure will disagree, but a lot of the stuff you make so important is really small potatoes, and hard to see why it's taking up any mental space at all.
