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Originally Posted by forty-two

See, I'm not sure it's *just* a function of having intuition . My mom's a very S person, also mainstream punitive, and very common sense-y. And when I was a baby, the prevailing expert opinion was 4 hrs b/w feeds, and that the baby "can't" be hungry before then, and if you just let them cry when they wake up early, they'll go back to sleep. But I wanted feeding every 2 hours . And Mom had no trouble basically saying that the "experts" had never met me, that I gave clear evidence that I would cry the entire 2hrs until I was finally fed, and the sensible thing was to feed me when I wanted to be fed . There was no "knowing" or anything, just the common sense analysis that reality was disagreeing with the experts, and the experts' reasoning was specious compared to the evidence of her own eyes.

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.

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Originally Posted by klpmommy

am i the only one who was told that Christians were not supposed to be "common" so "common sense" wasn't applicable to us? I didn't become a Christian until I was an adult.

I never heard that. But I can see how we are not of the world could translate into that. Or check the Word could be twisted into that as well.