Kids and Manners - Parenting Extremes
I was recently caring for a child at the hospital who had come in with his mother. The boy was about 8 or 9, and presented with 3 or 4 days of flu symptoms which were worsening. His temperature was quite high, and he had a hacking cough which flared up every couple of minutes. What struck me as quite amazing is that the mother was quite insistent that the boy have extremely good manners, and kept prompting him every ten seconds or so. So the assessment went something like this:
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