You have wonderful advice, unsolicited or no, and it makes me think, too. You're totally right, I do worry too much about that. Probably because I grew up (and watched my nephews grow up) surrounded by them: my sister was one of Those Parents, my mother-in-law was the High Queen of living through her children (and the whole family is a gigantic clusterfornication because of it). My parents weren't that way, but that was mostly due to a lack of money rather than anything else. And it's difficult with Sean because we have to take the initiative so much (that pesky lack of speech/communication issues thing again - we have to guess at his interests and make the first step more often than other parents might ...) so it feels like we're pushing him (he's less able to direct us; life is a giant game of charades.) I like that, a limit of 3 activiities. That works for me. *hugs* Thank you.
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You're totally right, I do worry too much about that. Probably because I grew up (and watched my nephews grow up) surrounded by them: my sister was one of Those Parents, my mother-in-law was the High Queen of living through her children (and the whole family is a gigantic clusterfornication because of it). My parents weren't that way, but that was mostly due to a lack of money rather than anything else.
And it's difficult with Sean because we have to take the initiative so much (that pesky lack of speech/communication issues thing again - we have to guess at his interests and make the first step more often than other parents might ...) so it feels like we're pushing him (he's less able to direct us; life is a giant game of charades.)
I like that, a limit of 3 activiities. That works for me. *hugs* Thank you.