03/11/2023
Parents stealing from kids
I got the below forwarded to me by a friend. It struck me enough that I thought I'd take a pause from legislative stuff (a welcome break actually) to post about it.
The link is below and I took a screenshot of what the author thought parents steal. In thinking about this, I would add to the list, however. As both a parent and as someone who taught high school a long time (and college a shorter time), I have seen parents steal from their children more than once.
They steal their child's ability to make choices by never letting them make those choices (and learn from the consequences of them).
They steal their child's ability to grow and gain resiliency by fixing things when they go wrong for their child.
They steal from their child when they don't take the time to help the child properly frame what a loss or a win means.
They steal from their child when they don't make the child responsible for something--a chore, a job, paying for their own car insurance, helping to pay for their college.
Our children don't need an extended adolescence. They do not need to have the world massaged into safety and beauty and handed to them.
We don't need to hand our children crutches, we need to teach them how to walk.
https://growingleaders.com/how-parents-steal-from-their-kids/?mc_cid=08b8e400b1&mc_eid=66129a5f1a
