You see your child headed towards a cliff, a fiery building or a tidal wave of water. And yet so many parents say, "I don't want to get involved," or I don't want them to think I don't trust them or that they're incapable or I don't want them to get angry with me.
All of these statements are very selfishly focused on the person saying them. The kid is going to crash and burn and the parent or the adult who claims to love them is more worried about the outcomes if they get involved ... instead of the damage that will happen to the child.
What is going on here?
Why do so many of us as parents become so selfish and refuse to intervene when we see our children using their agency-their choices to be destructive?
Parents, we have one job and one job only, and that is to direct our Children towards principles of truth, which means: talk with them, intervene on their behalf, support them to see the distortions, let them know that you don't trust them because they're kids. They're not meant to be trusted! They're meant to be guided.
When you see them in distortion, then you guide those choices, hold boundaries with them until they evidence to you that they know how to choose principles of being honest, responsible and humble.
Are you willing to truly love them?
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