Reading this thread made me cry but I'm so glad that I found it. I share so many of these same concerns. I try so very hard but there are so many days where I really can only manage to provide my daughter with the basics. So many days I'm not the mom that I want to be but the thing that worries me most is not wanting to make my daughter sad or confuse her in any way. And I certainly don't want to create any lasting emotional issues for her. She is 3 1/2-years-old, but a VERY smart, intuitive and articulate three-year-old. She is the poster child for precociousness.

I'll definitely take a few tips from this thread and use them with my daughter. Thanks for helping me to not feel so alone. Somehow feeling not so alone in this situation makes me think that I have been too hard on myself and perhaps I'm not messing things up between my daughter and I as badly as I've thought.