I'm planning on starting a family quite soon. I am looking forward to guiding and raising another human being. I hope I can help my children to live fully conscious, fulfilled lives.
I will tell them what i have learned about life so far in the hope that they don't have to go through the pain of the mistakes I made, fully expecting of course that they will only learn by making their own mistakes. I hope to be on hand to support them through life's challenges and to give them lots of happy experiences along the way.
I don't honestly think that I can force them to live a certain type of life if they don't want to. They may not even want to live fully conscious lives and I wouldn't be able to force that either.
I don't think by giving a child your opinions you are turning them into a mini version of yourself. You only have to speak to people to find out they don't agree with their parents on a whole host of subjects. Children are more than capable of thinking for themselves and one of your jobs as a parent is to help them develop that critical ability for themselves.
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