Right on. "I treat my son like the man he will be someday" blessings, going in the quote book!
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Thus the saying..."I'm not raising a child...I am raising a future adult."
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What do you do to keep their innocence, or do you not?
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Can you elaborate on this question? There’s a number of ways to interpret it.
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My mother defined helicopter parenting before it was a thing. I had no life skills or anything when I graduated high school and then it was bye, off to college good luck! That first year of giving myself a crash course in learning basic skills still haunts me.
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Its all good. Just dont rob them from their childhood. They will hate you for it later on.
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Perhaps unintentionally so. But it's a great cruelty.
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Teach him the most important lessons when he's young and they will stick with him. If you wait until he's a teen, the world will already have taught him what he knows and anything you want to teach will fall on deaf ears.
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Throw your son off the roof so he becomes hard. (metaphorically)
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I suspect I'd agree with you if I knew what you meant, but making allowances for ignorance, lack of habituation, small stature & weak muscles, poor coordination, lack of knowledge, not knowing things, did I mention ignorance?, etc *is* treating him like a kid.
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Are you trying to contrast making allowances for ignorance with the word modern idea of trying to *preserve* ignorance, as if growing up were a permanent state suddenly altered by magic into adulthood, rather than gradual development into the adult state?
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