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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I am truly amazed that when people bring children into the world or into their homes, they don't try to learn all they can regarding child development. After all, we as parents are responsible for their mental as well as physical growth-the idea of just winging it until the child goes off on his/her own is almost disgusting to me. We need to learn the why's, the how's and the when's of every stage in order to deal with the trials we face.
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Isn't it easier to remember back to when we were that age?
I don't know dawg, I think raising kids is one of those things that just happens based on the person doing the raising. It should be based on interactions between the parent and child, not how a child is supposed to develop. I'm not arguing so much that it wouldn't be good to know developmental stages, but that winging it (as disgusting an idea as it is to you) is the only way
I see to do it correctly. Curveballs get thrown and not all kids're the same.
I guess it's really just a matter, in my mind, of book knowledge vs. adaptablity. I don't like the idea of scientificating the raising of children. Little bit too much 1984/Brave New World for me...
Yeah... I know. You're the mom here and I'm just a 19 year old punk who makes up words like "scientificating," but I thought I'd bounce my two cents off the wall and see how much came back...