SURPRISE LORRIE!!!!!!!!!!
Kids LOVE to take baths with their parents!!!!!!!
IN fact, now that you mention it--I think I may have been seriously exploited by my toddlers.
I should have reported them.
Well, no I had fun some of the time,
although- oh dear-- that might mean -- oh no-- have I damaged them by having fun with them?? BUt that's ok-- I can just go into denial about it.
But wait!
if we all had fun--- does that mean- oh this gets worse and worse!!!-- we were involved in (gasp)
SYMBIOTIC ABUSE!!!
Lorrie--- parents make mistakes, large and small, on a daily basis. If we stopped to examine every one, if we allowed ourselves to feel terrible guilt over each, we would be incapacitated and worthless as parents.
PArenting has many styles, determined by education, upbringing, culture, and temperament. There is a huge range of behaviors aned techniques and I would venture that the success or failure of these depends much more on the relationship of the parent to child than on the technique itself. Love, respect, trust--- these even out the bumpy field of child-rearing.
Since you have no true idea what the relationship is or what is acceptable to ELian and his family or to me and mine, or Steven's or X's or Michael's, I find your broadbrush of condemnation says much more about you than us.
Luckily, my two almost-adults are 99% perfect (well, actually I think they ARE perfect, but I'm trying to be a little modest- no humble for me) and so I am relatively unconcerned about the issue. |
