OT: Pausing the Internet

[cookderosa]

I agree. While I homeschool my kids, I'm pretty far removed from helicopter parenting - I am all about natural consequences (my kid just got back from camp and spent all his money and didn't have but $2 left to eat lunch that last day. Oh well, I guess next time he'll try to be better about budgeting, or else he'll go hungry! - I gave him PLENTY of money for meals, but he decided to buy a t-shirt with some of it). I want them to feel the pain of bad decisions, and some kids need to feel more pain than others. But when their pain (being sleepy and grumpy the next day) becomes MY pain, then we need to make some changes!

<--- also not a rescuer. It doesn't create resentful kids, my kids are exceptionally self-reliant and proud of that ability.