Re: How to give our children a chance of having a healthy self-esteem?
Yes to the previous posts. Fostering competence and empowerment... Also trusting your child, enjoying your child, engaging in meaningful conversation, treating your child respectfully... Iow, treating your child like a fully formed person.
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ANDREA
GLORY be to God for dappled things---
...
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
GERARD MANLY HOPKINS
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