Video Creator’s Channel Jordan B Peterson

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The Problem With Wanting To Be Friends With

your child is that that’s not good enough because as a parent you’re not less than a friend. You’re far more than a friend. You’re someone that’s gonna be in the child’s life for the duration of your life with any luck. You’re a long-term island of stability in a sea of turbulence and the child needs that far more than then he or she needs a friend parents need to be courageous because they have to let their children go and make mistakes you have to let your child fall when they’re learning to walk they bump themselves up against the world a lot and you don’t want to do any more for your child. Then you absolutely have to and it means that there’s a certain amount of detached harshness that has to go along with your love and compassion.

You Have To Stand Back And

let your child stumble forward towards mastery today’s parents are terrified of their children because they’re often afraid that if they intervene in their lives that they’ll make a mistake and that that will be irrevocable and you have to have the courage of your convictions. When you have children and you have to understand that if you do make mistakes that you can learn and you can be forgiven. You don’t have to be a perfect parent. Although you should aim up with your children parents are terrified of making mistakes and that means that they’re terrified of being parents and they and that stops them from being parents you.

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Summary

The problem with wanting to be friends with your child is that that’s not good enough because as a parent you’re not less than a friend . As a parent parents need to be courageous because they have to let their children go and make mistakes . Today’s parents are terrified of their children because they’re often afraid that if they intervene in their lives that they’ll make a mistake and that that will be irrevocable and you have to have the courage of your convictions. You don’t have to be a perfect parent. If you do make mistakes that you can learn and you can be forgiven. You have to stand back and let your child stumble forward towards mastery.& When you have children and . you have . to understand that if you do . make mistakes, you can . learn that you . can learn that they can . be forgiven and you don’t have to make mistakes and you should be forgiven . Parents are afraid of making mistakes and that means that they’re terrified of being parents…. Click here to read more and watch the full video