Dont Give Them an Ego

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 9 p.m.

b'You love your kids more than anything. You think they\\u2019re God\\u2019s gift (which they are, to you!). You want them to know how you feel about them, and you feel bad when they feel bad about themselves. These are all perfectly healthy and laudable feelings.At the same time, we have to make sure we\\u2019re not puffing up their ego with our endless praise and our very natural bias towards their virtues and blindness to their vices. Seneca knew this balance was not easy\\u2014it isn\\u2019t for any parent. It\\u2019s...'