I remember attending a month long theatre camp when I was 15 years old. For the most part the youth who attended the camp resided in the dorms which housed BYU students during the school year. There was one youth who had traveled with his parents. He was eleven. Very talented and gifted child. I don’t know if he was an only child but that is how I saw him.
His mother doted on him 24/7. She would accompany to all the rehearsals,
activities and whatever else we had going on.
She was an older parent who wouldn’t allow Trevor to be out of her
sight. I felt bad for him. As gifted as he was with the piano, he lacked
social skills. He behaved differently
the few times his mom was out of sight – which was rare. I think he was abusing his freedoms.
Clair told me that her sibs will
dote on Ally just as she does. Neither
Jaime or I dote. Neither one of us are
especially fond of being around children as a whole. Of course there are exceptions. We will become a friend but neither one of us
dote. Clair says that Ally doesn’t
understand what her relationship is with Jaime as she doesn’t dote as her other
aunts do.
Jaime and I are more about self-reliance – but as with Trevor (in the example above) she will only try to do things herself when she doesn’t have permission – like reaching for items in the fridge that she isn’t supposed to have or scaring the dogs with her remote control car.
