Are you @#$%ing kidding me??

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Not at all.

Considering how we mock and decry "helicopter parenting" around here, piling on MC is insane, because he's exactly on the right track. Pride in your child, pride in parenting, all that good stuff is completely separate from basing your own identity on your child. The latter is the genesis for helicopter parenting - the cognitive dissonance loop that begins with "My child's successes/failures are my own" and ends with "My baby couldn't be _____________."

As always, you've summed it up better than I could have. I agree with both you and MC.