What is the most important lesson you feel you need to teach your children?

this famous fairytale

teaches us

about a delicate girl

whose famous physical sensitivity

stretches to feeling

a pea

under twenty mattrasses,

and everyone

is running around

to protect

her

from the first sign

of physical discomfort

without asking

the basic question:

" Is the pea, really, causing her so much harm?"

Princesses and princes

or our times

driven

by the best

of intention

are being

cocooned

from anything,

and protected

from everyone.

In the 'all must have prizes'

era

teachers,

just like me,

award

merit cards

for the most

mundane

things.

Parents

increasingly

expect

and

demand

that their children

are protected

from all

and every

possibility

of harm.

A bare suggestion

of not guarding

students

from

the anguish

of failure

is met

with

howls

of protesting crowd.

Rearing a child

is a great privilege

and responsibility,

exasperating,

yet rewarding,

exhilarating,

emotionally and physically

draining,

yet heart warming

and heart stirring,

frightening at times...

There is no generic way

how to raise

your brilliantly

and frustratingly

unique individuals,

and yet,

by trying so hard

to make

your kids happy,

by trying

to protect them

from any kind

of often

hypothetical

harm,

you are denying

them,

happiness

as grown up

individuals.

Teach your kids

FAILURE,

at an early age.

They will be

grateful

for their experience

of hardship

once

they compete

for their place

in the sun

with their mates.

Encourage

EARNED ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

Narcissism

is cute

in three-years-old,

but young adults,

away

from their teachers

and their parents

do not get

constant praise

for their brilliance

they do not posess.

Liberate yourself

and liberate your children

as well...

Let them to find their own way,

let them to learn from their own mistakes,

we have all learnt

this way,

once,

do your remember?