Is Your Tot Autonomous? It's All Good, if He Is
I'm starting to think maybe I wasn't such a good mom. It seems that tots who are more autonomous tend to, later in life, have higher cognitive skills (I think that means they're smarter), according to a new study . When my son was young, I didn't let him do anything alone. (He didn't want to, but that wasn't because of me, right?) I kept an eagle eye on him no matter where he was, except for the one time I was in the kitchen and he climbed up on a car seat we happened to have in the house in the family room and it tipped over, crashing his head into the glass table (only one stitch, and they were able to glue it). Maybe that's one of the reasons I decided never to leave him alone again. Even once he went to school. (On the first day of kindergarten, I actually let him go on the bus. But that was because we had a whole slew of kids at the bus stop and the older ones tended to look out for the younger ones.) I remember the day in first grade he ...