You Don't Want for Your Child What You Want for Them, You Let Go

When you have an infant, you do everything for the infant. But as the infant matures and is increasingly capable of doing things for him or herself, then you pull back. You let go in precise proportion to your desire to have that happen. The good father is someone who is willing to sacrifice his child to the ultimate good. That's dramatized in this story, you know. And it's brutal, but the world is a brutal place, and much wisdom comes out of catastrophe....