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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 414011" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Having spent the morning accompanying J's class to the swimming pool (as there are only two teachers, they need volunteer parents to help in the pool), I can testify to the "opposite and equal" phenomenon that complements that of children acting up in front of their parents: parents being harder on their own children than others'! I had only gentle encouragement for all the tiny tots as they faltered around the swimming bars, etc, but when it came to J, I found myself being much brusquer and no-nonsense... Though perhaps the observation is complicated a little by the fact that J is that more robust and lively than the others... and so fearless and determined in the water that he keeps trying to swim by himself rather than bothering with all the tedious, slow exercises... Nonetheless, I was definitely more laid-back with his schoolmates!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 414011, member: 11227"] Having spent the morning accompanying J's class to the swimming pool (as there are only two teachers, they need volunteer parents to help in the pool), I can testify to the "opposite and equal" phenomenon that complements that of children acting up in front of their parents: parents being harder on their own children than others'! I had only gentle encouragement for all the tiny tots as they faltered around the swimming bars, etc, but when it came to J, I found myself being much brusquer and no-nonsense... Though perhaps the observation is complicated a little by the fact that J is that more robust and lively than the others... and so fearless and determined in the water that he keeps trying to swim by himself rather than bothering with all the tedious, slow exercises... Nonetheless, I was definitely more laid-back with his schoolmates! [/QUOTE]
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