The best advice on parenting that I was ever given was, "remember you are raising adults, not children." We have the responsibility of raising caring, educated, COMPETENT people. If you never teach your child the skills to manage their lives, you are doing them a horrible injustice. I worked with a young woman (22) who, when asked to vacuum, was embarrassed bc her mother had done all the housework and she had never learned to operate a vacuum. Her mother prided herself on being a nurturing mother and wife, but was the young woman really better served by this type of parenting? Now imagine how lost as to her own sexuality this girl was. She talked with me later that summer when she began dating a man. She was grossly misinformed from the tidbits she'd picked up, horribly ashamed at having to ask, and vulnerable to the man's misinformation. I don't want that for my daughters.
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The best advice on parenting that I was ever given was, "remember you are raising adults, not children." We have the responsibility of raising caring, educated, COMPETENT people. If you never teach your child the skills to manage their lives, you are doing them a horrible injustice. I worked with a young woman (22) who, when asked to vacuum, was embarrassed bc her mother had done all the housework and she had never learned to operate a vacuum. Her mother prided herself on being a nurturing mother and wife, but was the young woman really better served by this type of parenting? Now imagine how lost as to her own sexuality this girl was. She talked with me later that summer when she began dating a man. She was grossly misinformed from the tidbits she'd picked up, horribly ashamed at having to ask, and vulnerable to the man's misinformation. I don't want that for my daughters.
March 19, 2010 - 4:35pmThis Comment
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