Unfortunately, parenting is a very inexact art and we are chucked into it with no real knowledge or understanding of what it's all about. I based most of my parenting on what my parents, and mainly my mother had done. I think most people fall back on their own upbringing in one way or another. After all, it's really all most of us know. My personal feeling is that provided we teach our children decency, honesty, caring for others and a few other things like that, it doesn't really matter if we did too much for them physically, or too little (in our own views) they'll probably turn out ok in the end

Love Lynne