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[quote=Anonymous]Free range. Seriously - raise your children with many of the freedoms you were given. If you're walking distance to school, allow them to walk to school by themselves. By 8 they should be old enough to walk alone. Let them fail. If they forget to take their homework to school, DO NOT bring it to school. Have them learn to schedule their own time, how to get up by themselves. Give them chores. A three year old can start to help with the laundry - sorting clothes by color or matching socks. By the time they are in high school, they should be capable of doing their own laundry. Make them get a part time job when they are 16. At younger ages, teach them to mow the lawn. When they learn how to drive, teach them how to put air in the tires, how to change a tire, how to change the oil. So many of my children's friends had obsessive helicopter parents and now the parents wonder why their children can't function in society. [/quote]
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