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"Take her away! She's been born for so long! Can't she feed herself yet?"

At my niece's one-month celebration, my sister-in-law Li Jiayin looked displeased, signaling for my mom to take the loudly crying niece away.

Facing the puzzled looks of friends and family, she began to boast about her parenting methods—

"Our family has a baby girl! All that talk in books about pampering girls is wrong! The most important thing to cultivate in a girl is her independence!"

"The plan I have for my daughter is that she'll feed herself at one month old, and do her own laundry, cook, and sleep on her own by six months!"

The relatives were all shocked. They all advised her, saying the child is so small, how can she be without careful adult care?

She dismissed them: "What do you know? Nowadays, men like independent women the most!"

"If you don't believe me, look at Zhou Yuqiao, she's always home and calling out for her mom, a total mommy's girl! Now she's in her thirties and no man wants her!" "Zhou Yuqiao, you're an elementary school teacher and know a lot, do you think I'm right?"

As she spoke, her gaze turned to me. Facing the familiar scene before me,

a chill ran through my heart. I suddenly realized, I had been reborn. In the past life at my niece's one-month party, she formally practiced a three-no policy.

A refusal to hold the niece, no feeding the niece, and no physical contact with the niece!

In her words: "This is for her own good! Children need to be trained from an early age! Especially in independent awareness!"

"When she grows up to be an independent woman, a bunch of men will be fighting to have her!"

"She'll be too busy thanking me then!"