Is Your Role as a Parent Doing Your Child No Good?

"Your role as a parent is to act as a benevolent and encouraging representation of the social community," he says. "That's what enables the child to learn how to be prepared for life independent of you." He adds that empathy gets overplayed, but it's by no means the only virtue. 'The parent who accepts everything is the same parent who imposes no standards whatsoever on their children'