Mandie

“We cannot make our children happy. 2. We cannot give our children high self-esteem. 3. We cannot make friends for our children or micromanage their friendships. 4. We cannot successfully double as our child’s agent, manager, and coach. 5. We cannot create the “second family” for which our child yearns in order to facilitate his or her own growth. 6. It is increasingly apparent that we parents cannot compete with or limit our children’s total immersion in the online, digital, and social media realms. 7. We cannot keep our children perfectly safe, but we can drive them crazy trying. 8. We cannot make our children independent.”
― Michael G. Thompson, Homesick and Happy: How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow