Teach children the autonomy

As good parents, we’ve definitely thought about how important not only empower our children, but also leaving their desire for autonomy will be instilled. The first time we are asked to dress just know that it will take them an hour and eventually will have clothes on the contrary, but let them do. It ‘a historic moment and we enjoy the way down, looking forward to the day, also, you do not follow them step by step more.

A few days ago, however, talking to parents, I realized that it is easy to let our children grow only until it comes to autonomy, as it were, operational. But when we realize that tastes differ from ours, a character with which we struggle to live everything changes. Yet it is precisely here that we should leave them space.

I asked myself what I am willing to let my daughter grow up free, with its ideas, its projects, with all those characteristics that make it very different from me? After having suffered as a child, I am ready to put into question as a mother? And you?