Rainbow Baby

I am not a child psychiatrist.  I am only a mother.  I am writing this because I don't want to go through the same road that some mothers go through.  Those with troubled teenagers, with spoilt kids, or problematic kids who can't blend well with the world. At my work place, I am seeing this happening more and more with younger people who feel entitled, who only cares for themselves and not others and lack manners.  And I attribute all these to their upbringing. I have a theory and I think it all started because we want the best for our kids and in that process we indulged them too much.  Say kids always have the last say.  They dislike this, we don't give.  They like that, we give them endless. We give them organic food as a means to start a healthy lifestyle but that makes them weaker as well as they can't take non-organic food.  And the immunity to fight. That doesn't mean we have to give ice cream, candy, fried food, fast food all the time....

Baby has been going for swimming class since she was 8 months old.  She enjoyed it very much at first but then now towards the end of the second term, she is suddenly afraid of water and refused to do all that she was doing earlier.  Although she didn't cry but she just grabbed to my swimsuit and refused to do anything.  The swimming lessons are in a specialised heated pool with controlled chlorine usage and salted water.  Something like that.  The lessons are designed for babies, infant, toddler.  Either the mom or the dad has to be in the pool with the child. Baby was progressing well and even kicking her legs happily at the beginning of Term 2.  Then I missed 1 lesson and the next 2 lessons she refused to do anything.   The instructor said it's because I missed a lesson and that Baby is at the time when she knows what she likes and dislikes. But I find her behaviour is also attributed to 1 child in the class.  He is about 2 years o...