One of the best things parents can do for children of all ages is to have an intense and fulfilling personal life. In the absence of such a life, a parent can very easily slip into using an infant to service her emotional and tactile needs, formatting a teenager right into a depression, and weighing down an adult child into a life of thwarted losership.
2 responses to “For the Children”
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True, and concise.
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Totally agreed.
It’s not healthy for anybody, at least a child who has few coping skills or ways to fight back, to be the sole focus of someone else’s entire existence.
Everyone needs space, and kids need to be shown that they have the right to their own space by the loving adults in their lives. Kids (even very young ones) need to be shown that someone can love you from the depths of their heart, but that does not mean that the person who loves you a) exists just to serve you, b) does not have his or her own needs, and c) has a right to demand anything from you that you don’t want to give, including time and affection.
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