Especially important for the newly widowed or divorced: Never make your son "the man around the house." True, you want to teach him to grow to be a man, but there is a distinction between being "a little man" and being responsible for things that adult men are supposed to do. Your child is not your confidant, your knight in shining armor, or your rescuer.

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