I had a dck who couldn't even take off his shirt, put on sandal shoes, go potty or do ANYTHING for himself at age 4.

And if you asked for him to do it he'd cry and throw a fit.

Mom mentioned he couldn't do anything for himself. Quickly, I learned that it was because when he was a baby, he had to go under surgery for something going on w/ his heart, and after that, mom never EVER let him do anything, as to not cause him undue stress. (Though the DOCTORS said it was fine to let him be a regular kid).

It was sad to see bc sister who was only 1 1/2 could do all these things and was almost potty trained and everything. The parents treated them differently. I, however, did not.

Things started to turn around and the parents were ok with me training him. But they still babied him at home and he'd cry every evening when they'd pickup. I always thought it was because he didn't WANT to be babied anymore.

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