Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry

Re:Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry by moron4hire on Thursday October 09, 2014 @07:20AM (#8431687)

>> I worry for the safety of your child.

Was that necessary? It's an internet message board post. It's not like we're watching video of the guy's house as he declares his refusal to clean up the broken glass bottle of lemonade in the kitchen because "the kid'll learn him quick!"

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Re:Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry by narag on Thursday October 09, 2014 @08:24AM (#8431923)

Maybe too harsh. But I've known many cases of toddlers dying in which parents left them alone "just a second": jumping through windows, drowned in the bathtub, etc.

What children want is doing (specially discovering and learning) things by themselves, but that's not the same as being alone.

And every child I've seen wants more attention from their parents. There's an age for everything and that's not the one for unsupervised independence.

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Re:Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry by anonbanker on Thursday October 09, 2014 @11:18AM (#8432885)

You witnessed these cases of toddlers dying personally? Or did you watch them on TV?

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Re:Toddlers regulate behavior to avoid making adults angry by narag on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:02AM (#8436332)

A friend's nephew, some acquitances' son... at that time, ten to twenty years ago, domestic tragedies didn't appear in the media.

Edit: I live in Spain. I don't know how it is in your country. Now here these accidents are increasingly in tv.

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