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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Constant mediation and adult intervention can be an issue too.
Our kids are losing social skills and peer to peer interaction s that are important in development thanks to  constant adult intervention.
When you constantly helicopter you are teaching a child they cannot do and solve a problem on their own, and that your feelings on a  situation matter more than their own.[/quote]

Our children and charges LEARN social skills and peer-to-peer interaction.  Neither are innate.  Your point is well founded AFTER the child starts kindergarten when the children will sort it out and deal with the "offender" generally by refusing to play with him/her.  I totally disagree that young children (under three) should be left to the fend for themselves in a face of a bullying older child.

And too often being anti-helicoptering is used as a justification for simply being lazy.

I'm a nanny and I always step in and protect or correct my charges in play groups and parks.  [/quote]

Yours is the kid who instead of telling Larla to stop taking his trains he waits for you to come do it for him.

By all means teach, but part of teaching is allowing the student to practice what they have been taught.

Even a   2 year old can speak up.

All I'm saying is give your kids a chance instead of automatically swooping in to save them when they may not need to be saved.[/quote]

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