Dear Care and Feeding,
My sister-in-law, “Kate,” is very protective of my 8-year-old nephew, “Adam,” to the point that she still sometimes treats him like he’s 3. To be clear, he doesn’t have any developmental/ behavioral/neurodivergent diagnoses; he might be a bit on the sensitive side, but it’s honestly hard to tell if that’s just who he is, or the result of Kate treating him the way she does.