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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 414006" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>On the "easy child" acronym, I don't find it offensive exactly but I do think it is rather unreal. Raising a child is difficult, period, and among my friends and family who have "normal" children, there isn't one who doesn't find this or that about their child's behaviour hard or aspects of being a parent challenging. None of them would accept the label of "perfect child" for their offspring, I think! </p><p></p><p>I suspect it's rather like money - however much you have fills the space of "desires and needs". In other words, if you have more, you don't see it like that, you don't appreciate it in relation to what other people have. I think it is quite false to make some hard boundary between "normal" kids over here and "difficult" kids over there... you rise to the occasion and deal with what you have and we all have varying degrees of knowledge and skills as parents. </p><p></p><p>Having said that, I appreciate that some kids are just so challenging that all such relativising seems irrelevant. But in that case you still have to deal with what you've got.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 414006, member: 11227"] On the "easy child" acronym, I don't find it offensive exactly but I do think it is rather unreal. Raising a child is difficult, period, and among my friends and family who have "normal" children, there isn't one who doesn't find this or that about their child's behaviour hard or aspects of being a parent challenging. None of them would accept the label of "perfect child" for their offspring, I think! I suspect it's rather like money - however much you have fills the space of "desires and needs". In other words, if you have more, you don't see it like that, you don't appreciate it in relation to what other people have. I think it is quite false to make some hard boundary between "normal" kids over here and "difficult" kids over there... you rise to the occasion and deal with what you have and we all have varying degrees of knowledge and skills as parents. Having said that, I appreciate that some kids are just so challenging that all such relativising seems irrelevant. But in that case you still have to deal with what you've got. [/QUOTE]
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