Using presence to raise independent children

One day, when my son was a baby, I took him to the grocery store. He started to cry, and as I lifted him out of his car seat, a strange woman walked by. "If you do that every time he cries, he'll never learn to be independent," she said over her shoulder.

In this Throwback Thursday post, AP mom Kayris Wall shares how giving her infants and toddlers the gift of presence helped them blossom into confident preschoolers.