My family tends to baby my daughter because of her disorder. She's nineteen months old and I just now FINALLY took her bottle away because my husband insists on babying her. Her disorder is not developmental- she has a bone disease that causes pain in her joints. I don't push her too hard to do too much, but the few things I DO make her do for herself gets me criticized. For example, she has a tendency to throw things just so someone else will go pick it up for her- she makes a game out of it- and when I tell her to go pick it up herself she grabs her knees and cries- she KNOWS what she's doing. At this point my husband, or my sisters, or my Dad will always jump in with "Don't make her do that- she hurts." I feel like if everyone babies her, she'll never realize that she will eventually have to do things for herself. The day will come when I won't be here to take care of her anymore- and I don't want her to be completely dependant on me when that happens...
2007-01-06
06:21:18
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Jennifer F
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