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Originally Posted by rjy9343

Perhaps it is not intuition or common sense or what have as much as it is having confidence in your judgement? My mother is also very mainstream and punitive, but she has good sense and has said something along the same lines as your mother wrt feeding.

I think you're right, that confidence is a big thing. It would take a lot more to get someone who trusts their own judgement (in general or on a given issue) to doubt it than someone who, for whatever reason, didn't feel very confident about their judgement to start with.

Flexibility of mind might come into play, too - very confident people would be less likely to dismiss common sense or intuition because of outside influence, but they might be perfectly willing to ignore reality b/c it doesn't match what they very confidently think/feel ought to be the case .