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How to Cripple Your Kids: Treat Them Like They're Helpless

by Lenore Skenazy, Posted Mar 8th 2011 11:00AM

My friend Michelle's preschool daughter has autism. Every morning Michelle brings her into school, where the staff teaches the kids with special needs how to get their boots off, how to stuff their mittens in their pockets, how to hang their coats on ...Isn't it weird that nowadays a lot of people think that being a "good" parent means treating their little darlings as if they're handicapped?
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