Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: books for future siblings, and 2-year-old hospital visits? Message-ID: <26@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:17:22 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.26 Posted: Thu Jan 3 09:17:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:54:52 EST References: <1216@linus.UUCP> <238@unm-la.UUCP> Organization: Society for the Advancement of Raw Weirdness Lines: 18 ---------- > > Another issue I have yet to decide: should a 2 year old come to > > visit mom in the hospital? > > Yes. Starting in the delivery room. ---------- This seems to me to be an astoundingly bad idea. Perhaps it works out OK sometimes, but I keep thinking about a little 2- or 3-year-old watching his mother going through major pain, and then discovering that it was all caused by his new brother or sister. It seems to me that this sort of thing would cause a lot of emotional stress to the child. Think of the resentment it might cause against the new sibling, because "you hurt Mommy!" -- From the badly beaten keyboards of him who speaks +-best address in textured Technicolor *TyPe* f-O-n-T-s... | | Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus 614/860-5107 +---> cbrma!kk @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915 osu-eddie!karl