What is my role as a mom?
It's strange that over the years I've watched mom's that I thought were good and I thought were bad. I used to look at mom's in the playground when my son was little and see how each interacted with their child. I often wondered which mom was right in the way they handled things and which mom was wrong. I once watched a mom allow, a young child around age four, to climb monkey bars so high whilst she did nothing but read a magazine. At the same time, I saw a mom help another child of about the same age, climb the same monkey bars and hold her hands up lest he fall. I watched my own child slide up and down a slide and run form equipment to equipment as I intently watched him interact with other kids. The mom's whose kids were on the monkey bars interested me. I wondered if the child who wasn't really being watched would fall, and I wondered what would happen if he did. 20 years pass ....... I look bac...
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