Letters to the Editor
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Refreshing!
Look! You gotta see this!! A non-obsessive parent! A parent who's also a complete individual and doesn't live ONLY through their children! Someone who understands that it's NORMAL to not spend every second of every minute of every day completely ABSORBED in your child and nothing else. The benefit? The child will understand that they are loved by their parents very much, but the world does NOT revolve around them, and will not bend to their every whim, thus preparing them to live successfully in the real world as adults.
You know - the way kids were raised for millenia prior to 1960 or so, when parents were more concerned about raising their children to be well-adjusted happy competent adults, rather than short-sightedly raising them to be constantly appeased children (I'm guessing for fear that their children might not like them as much if they say "no" or discipline them?) who can't manage to behave like humans in public.
It's lovely and a relief to know that there are still parents out there with a little bit of perspective. How do we get more of those??