nothing thrown at my house

Remember I went to that homeopathic doc with one of my children?

Something is bugging my mind ever since.
Nothing really special, but still.

He asked if my kid ever threw something and got it broken.

I said he never had the chance.

The man was completely amazed.

I told him I considered it my responsibility to teach my children not to break anything.
Not they toys and certainly no nother things.

Again he asked if he never broke a thing.

"No"! Because at the critical age I was present all the time or had things that could break put away."

I've never thought a child needed to throw something precious around the room and get it in thousand pieces to learn not to throw things around.
When they were old enough to learn not to touch things I said no... at a maximum of three times.

Then I took the child and put it at the free space in the room or in the kitchen and had it sit there untill I thought it was time to stand up.

For a child a big empty space is far bigger than for grown ups.
Just sit down at the ground and get at eyelevel of a child.

The man I was talking with made me feel like I was some witchy mom, who didn't give her child the opportunity to break things.

Well, I taught my children to respect the belonging of others.