The earliest "adult" conversation I can remember having with Aliera centered around having blood drawn. She was four and a half I think. Since she was off the scale small at the time they wanted to check for growth hormone deficiency. She didn't want to have the blood drawn, and argued that it was her body, and she ought to make decisions about it. I could only partially explain why we wanted to do this, but this was not an arbitrary action and if I didn't think it was important I wouldn't ask her to go through it. She eventually reluctantly allowed me to override her autonomy in this case, and took it all very calmly in a "giving me enough rope to hang myself" kind of way.
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Date: 2004-08-17 08:59 am (UTC)