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。
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> 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).
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Literal translation 様子見くらいいいっしょ
* **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?"
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様子見 = wait-and-see → Correct. It's a noun.

くらい = about?around? → Main use of くらい is "about" or "around", but there are
also other usages.

明鏡国語辞典  
くらい 〘副助〙 〔「ぐらい」とも〕： ❷ 物事を示して、その程度が軽いことを表す。

「それ **くらい** のことでめげるな」

「お茶を飲む **くらい** つきあえよ」

So くらい is used to show that the previous thing is something small or trivial.

Ex. それくらいで慌（あわ）てるな。= Don't get upset over such small thing.

それぐらいは僕でも知ってる。= Even I know that much.

いいっしょ → Colloquial for いいでしょう.

I don't know the context but 様子見くらい いいっしょ｡ is like "My dear only son got a
bang on the head, just let me wait and see, darling!" something like that.
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