Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Big Sky Buckeye
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Live truth instead of professing it.
Big Sky Buckeye 
Amen!😊🙏🏻
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Nina, thanks for reading. I will be posting more thoughts from Hubbard’s incredible view of life. Blessings.
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I have seen this lived out again and again …
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I have as well when I was teaching.
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I am sometimes guilty of the first one…
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Any parent (me included) has probably walked in those same shoes. If as parents, we teach our children the ability to fly on their own, they will make it.
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that’s the end goal; not always easy to know how to get there…
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True.
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Indeed! There probably isn’t a parent born who hasn’t done a little bit too much in this regard.
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That first quote is good
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The first quote is quite prophetic. I have never been an advocate of “helicopter” parents, who hover over their children far too much.
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🙂👍👍👍
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