Literal translation 様子見くらいいいっしょ


I asked this question earlier:

> Mother: 当分ここに住むから。
>
> Son: えっ!? 何だよそれ。
>
> Mother: カワイイ一人息子が頭 打ったんだ。
>
> Mother: 様子見くらい いいっしょ。

Here's the question: What does 様子見くらいいいっしょ｡ mean?

  * 様子見 = wait-and-see
  * くらい = about?around? dunno
  * いいっしょ = it's good, isn't it? it's ok, right? dunno

But after hours of discussing with some guys I finally get to understand it,
though I don't know how to make a literal translation. I can make a decent
English translation but not a literal translation.

So, here's what I learned:

様子見くらい いいっしょ｡

Breaking it down.

様子見: Gives the idea of "taking care";"looking after";"checking in on you".

くらい: It was really tricky to learn it, I got something like: For my particular
context it gives off the feeling/nuance of "XYZくらい いいでしょう” ”The amount of
XYZ... (is small) It's not too much to handle, right?” ”It's not going to hurt
you to do a little XYZ"

In other words, sometimes XYZくらい trivializes the XYZ

いいっしょ: meaning I think; it seems; probably; right?

So, what would be a literal translation to it? (I don't know if this kind of
question is acceptable in this website, if it's not. Please warn me, and I'll
delete it).




  * **様子見** means wait-and-see, watch-and-wait, or seeing what happens without any actual intervention. "Taking care" and "looking after" are probably misleading because they imply intervention.
  * **くらい** basically means "this much" or "about", but it indeed implies 様子見 is not a big deal, so "just 様子見" is a valid translation.
  * **いい** is "fine", "good", etc.
  * **っしょ** is colloquialism for でしょう, which is "I think", "..., isn't it?", etc.

Therefore a literal translation is like "I think just watching and waiting is
fine". It could be translated like "It's at least fine for me to watch you,
huh?"

