24 09, 2018

Raise Self-reliant Children

By | September 24th, 2018|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

In a recent post, I made the seemingly heretical statement that parents shouldn’t raise independent children. I hopefully explained myself adequately and provide a reasonable justification for what sounds like, at first blush, an absurd statement. I also made the distinction between raising children who are independent (again, not a good thing) and children who [...]

30 08, 2018

Don’t Raise Independent Children

By | August 30th, 2018|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , |2 Comments

In my first parenting book, Positive Pushing, I wrote a section titled “Raise an Independent Child” in which I recommended that parents should allow their children to gain independence from them as soon as possible. They should give their children the freedom to become their own people and navigate the world on their own. I [...]