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Reply to "Parents of only children: what’s the best part? Biggest challenge?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah but it’s feeling like you won the lottery is what makes them all grow up into self centered jerks.[/quote] I think this is exactly wrong. My child knows that we feel like we won the lottery with her. As a result, she is confident that she is loved and has a purpose and place in the world. That makes her less self-centered, not more. I grew up in a big family and spent a lot of years as an adult addressing my super low self-esteem and insecurity, which definitely stemmed from feeling unsure of my family's love for me as a child and never feeling like I belonged anywhere. I wouldn't call myself a "self-centered jerk", but I do think my worst qualities as an adult stemmed not from feeling loved and appreciated by my parents but the opposite. You don't spoil a child by loving her. But you can traumatize a child by nelecting her.[/quote]
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