(February 15, 2019 at 10:50 am)Mathilda Wrote: Just let your children be themselves.
Children are like clay in way, parents, society, culture, their environment all play a significant role in forming and shaping their identities, so whatever it might mean to be "themselves" these elements are a major factor in it, regardless of whether a parents recognizes their role as potters in this development or not. A parent who in essence wants to remove themselves as much as possible from this development, is pretty much asking for society, culture, other components of their external environment to fill that role. And I prefer to be a more active influence in that development, then society or culture, and this doesn't mean that I want to be some hovering, or overbearing overprotective parent either.
