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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 495477" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>As I said before I really don't "know" what, if any, reaction is appropriate. Part of me wonders if playing along with it is best. It certainly could be just an imaginary friend stage but it also seems possible that by acknowledging the good/bad sides of one child could lead to identity issues. GFGmom, for example, would deny doing something naughty and say "I didn't do it...the naughty part of me did." At the time I found it rather amusing. Subsequently her psychiatrist suggested that I only respond with some simple response like "all children and adults make poor choices sometime but growing up means trying to make the right choices". That's the closest I got to the circumstances you are describing during my parenting of young children. Frankly I never thought of it as possibly sending a wrong signal but, sigh, I did as was suggested and she soon stopped using that methodology. Just something to think about. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 495477, member: 35"] As I said before I really don't "know" what, if any, reaction is appropriate. Part of me wonders if playing along with it is best. It certainly could be just an imaginary friend stage but it also seems possible that by acknowledging the good/bad sides of one child could lead to identity issues. GFGmom, for example, would deny doing something naughty and say "I didn't do it...the naughty part of me did." At the time I found it rather amusing. Subsequently her psychiatrist suggested that I only respond with some simple response like "all children and adults make poor choices sometime but growing up means trying to make the right choices". That's the closest I got to the circumstances you are describing during my parenting of young children. Frankly I never thought of it as possibly sending a wrong signal but, sigh, I did as was suggested and she soon stopped using that methodology. Just something to think about. DDD [/QUOTE]
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