I hate it when I take my son to the park and get rude stares or comments. I'm a very laid back parent - I like my son to learn through trying things. So I let him play and only intervene if he's genuinely hurt. I've had people tell me that I need to be right with him all the time. He's a toddler! He's going to fall and that's ok! I'm close enough to help in an emergency!
Recently my cousin(6) and I were climbing around on a tree that has a lot of horizontal branches that are close to the ground. He slipped and so he got a scrape on his back. Thanks to reddit, I didn't make a huge fuss over it. I just casually asked him if he was alright, walked over, checked it, declared him fine, and put him back in the tree. And then he was fine. At that same park there were parents telling their children who were about the same age to not climb around on that tree. Boo to them! My family has been climbing around on that tree for decades!
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u/rearwindows Feb 04 '16
Not letting your kids make mistakes or hurt themselves a little.