Your children are not your children

There is nothing in this book that you wouldn’t know. In bringing up our children, we prefer clich?, well-known behavioral models and axioms, and going easy with these models, we don’t even think for a moment of how absurd they might sound. We consider them “the right thing”! Don’t fool yourself – your child doesn’t have to meet your expectations. Children are more “alive” than their parents because they are more filled with life. Parents, remember: your child is not your property! Parents are just a necessary condition for the appearance of a new life, and your task is to create a suitable space for its growth. A child having just been born is a perfect and beautiful creature, and there is no need to improve what’s perfect and beautiful…