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Our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of love, safety, and stability in which children of many unpredictable kinds can flourish. Our job is not to shape our children’s minds; it’s to let those minds explore all the possibilities that the world allows. Our job is not to tell
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The purpose of loving children is to give those helpless young human beings a rich, stable, safe environment - an environment in which variation, innovation, and novelty can blossom.
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🛹Children can do hard things🛹
⭐️I came across this video by @chasing.sage by chance earlier this week and fell in love with the relationship between this little girl and her father. It’s a gorgeous example of an adult acting as a secure base, leaning into a child’s readiness to do something that feels scary. ✨I was given permission to... See more
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