Yeah, it's difficult to know when to intervene and when it's best to just let the child handle it. In another conversation I had on the subject I think the standard we kind of unconciously adopted with my son was to wait for him to come to us. Certainly we were attentive to signs of distress, but we didn't bring it up. I wonder with your…
Yeah, it's difficult to know when to intervene and when it's best to just let the child handle it. In another conversation I had on the subject I think the standard we kind of unconciously adopted with my son was to wait for him to come to us. Certainly we were attentive to signs of distress, but we didn't bring it up. I wonder with your friends, if there's any correlation between how much parents and friends treated the situation as traumatic and how traumatic they view it now. (Though such a thing might be tough to disentangle even on the level of anecdote)
Yeah, it's difficult to know when to intervene and when it's best to just let the child handle it. In another conversation I had on the subject I think the standard we kind of unconciously adopted with my son was to wait for him to come to us. Certainly we were attentive to signs of distress, but we didn't bring it up. I wonder with your friends, if there's any correlation between how much parents and friends treated the situation as traumatic and how traumatic they view it now. (Though such a thing might be tough to disentangle even on the level of anecdote)