You're far more than a friend.

You're someone that's gonna be in the child's life for the duration of your life.

With any luck, you're a long term island of stability in a sea of turbulence, and the child needs that far more than he or she needs a friend.

Parents need to be courageous because they have to let their Children go on, make mistakes.

You have to let your child fall when they're learning to walk.

They bumped themselves up against the world a lot, and you don't want to do any more for your child than you absolutely have to.

And it means that there's a certain amount of detached harshness that has to go along with your love and compassion.

You have to stand back and let your child stumble forward towards mastery.

Today's parents air terrified of their Children because they're often afraid that if they intervene in their lives that they'll make a mistake and that that will be irrevocable and you have to have the courage of your convictions when you have Children, and you have to understand that if you do make make mistakes that you can learn and you could be forgiven, you don't have to be a perfect parent, although you should aim up with your Children.

Parents are terrified of making mistakes, and that means that they're terrified of being parents and and that stops them from being parents.