Conscious Parents: When Too Much Emotional Processing Is Counterproductive

“Free-range parenting isn’t supposed to end us up with feral kids.

Despite all our love, all the freedom we want our kids to experience and despite our desire to never break their will the way our will has been shattered and stomped on, it’s first and foremost our responsibility to raise our kids in a way that’ll be effective for them for the entirety of their lives (most of which, we won’t be there to keep eyes on their every move). More than we want their unconditional love returned to us, we must give them conditions.”