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Raising Self-Responsible Children

I saw an amazing video from a recent talk Mary and Jesus gave in Gatwick, UK. There was a piece in it about raising children that was so powerful I decided I had to clip it and throw it on my channel. I wrote a little blurb in the description box of the video and I thought it was good so I am copying and pasting it here: The Truths contained in this video is some of the most powerful information I’ve ever heard from anyone. As a child raised to be a couch potato, there were no consequences for my lack of desire to take responsibility over myself. For some reason, when my single mother wanted to do my laundry or clean my dishes, I did not protest. One time, I remember trying to take responsibility by cutting the peel off the apple segments myself. I had never done it before and I was learning how to use the knife carefully so that I would not cut myself. Instead of fostering my desire to learn, my mother told me I was going too slow, and she took over. Even as I write this, I cry thinki...