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Is it accepted for a seven year old to change infant diapers/bathe infant?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 672976" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>7 years old is too young to be responsible of a baby but not too young to help. However one should be rather careful on deciding which one 7 year old is doing based on the word of 7 year old. Child's perspective is different. They may easily think they cooked a dinner, when actually they were helping or a parent was teaching them to do some part of dinner preparations. Same here. </p><p></p><p>Also, when parents do not get along, children tell other parents things they 'want' to hear and in the way they want to hear it. If parent is distrustful to other parent, child tells 'bad' things of other parent to please the parent they are with at that moment and 'helping with giving the baby a bath' easily becomes 'bathing the baby' if the other parent is outraged about the possibility.</p><p></p><p>However even if Junior actually is changing diapers and giving baths without direct, line of sight parental supervision, I very much doubt they would be considered abusive behaviour even in USA as long as a parent is nearby and in that case it is on parent's hands to decide how to raise their child. Bart and his ex, at this point at least, has joint custody, they are both free to raise their son as they see fit when Junior is in their home. Their fighting does hurt Junior and it would be wise to let things like this go, simply not worth having a new fight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 672976, member: 14557"] 7 years old is too young to be responsible of a baby but not too young to help. However one should be rather careful on deciding which one 7 year old is doing based on the word of 7 year old. Child's perspective is different. They may easily think they cooked a dinner, when actually they were helping or a parent was teaching them to do some part of dinner preparations. Same here. Also, when parents do not get along, children tell other parents things they 'want' to hear and in the way they want to hear it. If parent is distrustful to other parent, child tells 'bad' things of other parent to please the parent they are with at that moment and 'helping with giving the baby a bath' easily becomes 'bathing the baby' if the other parent is outraged about the possibility. However even if Junior actually is changing diapers and giving baths without direct, line of sight parental supervision, I very much doubt they would be considered abusive behaviour even in USA as long as a parent is nearby and in that case it is on parent's hands to decide how to raise their child. Bart and his ex, at this point at least, has joint custody, they are both free to raise their son as they see fit when Junior is in their home. Their fighting does hurt Junior and it would be wise to let things like this go, simply not worth having a new fight. [/QUOTE]
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