If you raise your kids to fear you, you’re not teaching them strength, grit, or resilience. You’re teaching them to shrink back and hide. Your kids deserve better. Choose connection over fear. Delony | John Delony

If you raise your kids to fear you, you aren’t teaching them strength, or resilience, or grit. You’re teaching them to hide instead of standing up for themselves. | Ramsey Solutions

Children who don’t face any challenges are deprived of developing any grit, resilience and patience. Parents who shield their children from controlled difficulties starve their children’s growth out of PTSD from their childhood traumas. When we want to live our life through our children, we forget that we became who we are through our struggles. You are not forged through what you have, but you are forged through what you go through. And far too many parents are finding their children become reb