There are a million ways to rear children well and which method is right has more to do with who the parent is and what their kid’s like than anything else.

QFT!!!

Yeah, having a plan that cannot be changed in place for how your kid will be raised sounds like a recipe for disaster, because you may end up with a kid whose needs the plan doesn’t address at all.

Oooh, boy howdy! I am living that! I think I may go into improv, because I do it every damned day!

grumpyoldnurse – that better be fair trade moonlight and shade-grown mother’s love, or else your kids are going to grow up with poor self-actualization skills and end up at Central University.

Oh, no! I is fail! ::hangs head in shame:: OTOH, neither of my parents graduated high school, so I’m already a super over acheiver!! My kids should do better than me, quite easily.

I mean, come on. It’s a given that mamas love their kids and would walk through fire for them. Being willing to go the extra mile and stab someone does not mean you love your kid more than everybody else.

What it does mean, IMHO, is that mama bear is raising a future bully, just like her.

@ kittehserf – That’s very pretty! I wish I was crafty like you (but not enough to actually learn to do it – anything I’ve ever tried to knit looks like a spider was on hallucinogens and got lost in its own web!).

Maybe not – my granny tried to teach me to knit socks. Somehow, I wound up knitting them inside out. I don’t think even pretentious yuppies could be tricked into buying my wares!

LOL!!!