Jan 17
7-17
Posted by madameblogalot at 3:23 pm in home, kids & family, life

I get a weekly parenting newsletter. This past week the author had a little tidbit inserted that caught my attention. She said “There’s a statistic I once read which stated that your child will confide in you at the age of seventeen 10% of what he’d shared with you at age seven.”

I don’t know if I agree completely with that. I think it’s likely less than 10%! Maybe that is because my seventeen year old is a boy. Maybe it’s because at age seven he was homeschooled and home with me all day. Maybe it’s that I’ve pushed too hard or he is just testing his wings. I don’t know.

But I do know that there is a very big difference in 7 and 17!

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  1. Shelly wrote:
    January 17th, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    But there is another thing to consider — at 17, there are a lot of things that the person is not sharing with ANYONE, whereas at 7, nearly every thought comes right out of the mouth. It’s not just the parent-child relationship, but that the person is also learning some discretion in what he says, in general.

    Or maybe I’m just trying to put a positive spin on it. ;-)

  2. admin wrote:
    January 18th, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    no, no, I like this!

    really, you are right though there are times I wish at 17 there was some discretion used!:0

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