My toddler (in common with most of them I expect) quite often trips up when we're walking down the road. He never cries when he does, just picks himself up and I say 'oh dear, never mind' or something similar.
Today was walking along and there is a woman coming towards me with a child of a similar age who trips and falls over. Not badly and not hurt as far as I can see. Her mum stopped and made a huge fuss and the child started sobbing as if they'd really hurt themself but from what I could see, there were no injuries.
Surely we want to encourage our children to have a bit of stoicism or school's going to be hell?
Am prepared to be flamed for this
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to think that if you make a huge fuss every time your child falls over, you're not doing them any favours?
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SCARYspicemonster · 08/10/2009 13:13
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