Forthis redditor, decision time got even more complicated when his sons birth mother offered her two cents inparenting.
The psychological lessons basically can be boiled down to this: its harmful.
Children do better, not surprisingly, with honesty, and with contact with their birth parents.
Make a list and work with your child to shift the responsibility from you to them.
The more decisions they can make, the more practice they will have.
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