Kids, when they are young do not have a lot of agency. They are told how to get dressed, how to eat, how to, pick up their things. They are given very limited bounds within which to function.
Initially of course that is necessary. Kids don't know how to do things. They have to be taught. However, over time the scope of what is possible explodes and their potential massively increases beyond the bounds of their parents ability to capitalize on it all.
Unfortunately I see a lot of parents not only failing to encourage their children to step out and explore the possibilities before them, but keeping them in the little box of childhood they were in as little kids all the way into high school.
I want to teach my kids to have agency in their lives. To recognize what is out there in the world. What is possible. So they can step into it at as early of an age as they can. I want them to recognize their agency and ability to determine for themselves what their path is. To ignore the "rules" that children can't do great things. That they are limited by their age, size, experience, to only do small things and be consumers until some magic point where they "grow up".
I don't know how to do this, but that is what I want.
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