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It's one thing to have opinions on the subject before you have your own kids, and then to have kids and actually put those ideas in practice. Not as easy, but an interesting balancing act ;-)
I try to let them learn from their mistakes and not be a helicopter parent, and definitely not a sports-coach parent, and I hate the "everybody gets a trophy" deal... but when it comes to gravity and 2yrs old, you also want to limit the trips to the ER, the loose teeth (when applicable), the questions from the ER personnel "how did this happen? no sir, let the kid answer" ;-) Awkward !
It's a very litigious society now, doctors question every mishap, and there are seemingly more wackos and pedophiles out there in terms of not looking at the kids too closely...
There is a balance to be struck for sure ! That being said I cannot believe some of the stuff my parents let me do then (at a later age) that I would not let my kids do now without some sort of supervision (more a product of the times than anything)
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