Parenting Quote

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

         

                             --Friedrich Nietzsche 

         

This quote talks about how everyone can have their own way of doing things. No one way is the “correct” way. Just because someone does something differently than you would, doesn’t make him or her wrong! Their way is simply different. It is the same with your children. I know you want your children to learn from your mistakes. You want to save them from pain.

You want them to do what you say because you are older, more experienced and hopefully wiser. However, the world does not work that way. You probably didn’t learn the stove was hot from someone telling you it was hot. You most likely had to feel for yourself.          

The same is true for your children. When you can give your children the gift of doing things their own way without criticism, it is an incredibly powerful thing.

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