The only child
By grashal26
@grashal26 (274)
India
August 27, 2007 3:15am CST
The only child gets all the attention and affection from the parents. But he feels lonely. Moreover parents over-protect him and he becomes more dependent and is not able to face the challenges of out-side world.
Grand paretns living in the family may have adverse effects on the development of the child. A grandmother giving protection to a child when he is punished for his mistake by the parents will make him lose respect for his parent. The child starts manoeuvring parents and grand parents to his advantage.
1 response
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
27 Aug 07
While some of what you are stating here might be true, I do not agree withall of it. I am an only child, and know how good I was at manoeuvring my grandfather into protecting me all the time and get all that I wanted. On the other side however I was mature much earlier than all of my friends that did have sister and brothers. By being most of the time with adults a child gets grown up more rapidly. And to the contrary of what you are saying - that such a child will not be able to face the challenges of life - it doesn't count fort every only child and it depends on many other things, such as education, and relationship with othersd outside the family.
