Here's Betsy of Fluffy Windover's Diary in this week's Toddler Thursday:

Mayim Bialik, whom you may remember as "Blossom" from the early 90's TV series, has recently become somewhat of a parenting guru. If you Google her name and "parenting" you will find all sorts of interviews and writings she has done about her somewhat unusual style (think extreme attachment parenting). I usually like to read what she writes; though some of her choices seem pretty wacky to me, she expresses herself well and is clearly a very caring parent. Since I don't subscribe to any one parenting style and I have an open mind, I'm always interested in reading about all the different schools of thought. 

Now Bialik is a regular contributor to the pretty mainstream TODAY Moms blog, and her most recent post is definitely an attention-grabber (starting with the title: "Why I don't force my kids to say 'please'... or walk on schedule.") She talks about both of her sons' speech and motor skills delays, revealing, "by current conventional standards both of my sons qualified for speech, occupational and physical therapy and I gave them none."

Bialik is clearly very confident in her parenting instincts. She says she knew that both of her boys were just fine, and so she chose to trust her instincts instead of seeking assessment or therapy for them. What do you think: reckless over-confidence or insightful parenting?