Coddling your child is all about banking up the good bonds between you, in order to spend those good bonds by being there for them, by their side, in their scariest moments. But, if you don’t periodically spend down those bonds, if they just bank up and up and up, it spoils. And the only way to spend those bonds is for your child to experience shock and fear and pain. It’s just a hypothesis. But saying that here just now got me thinking, caused me to imagine what scary situation in which I...
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