NOTE TO SELF
A World of Unicorns Without Horns and Your Child
How not to chip a unicorn’s spiraled horn.
The moment they put that child into your arms, you instinctively tell yourself — “I can’t believe this child is mine.”
Just watch yourself out whenever you say mine.
No child is ours per se. Only ours to love, nurture, and help them grow wings and roots.
By how we think about them, the place and role we give them into our lives, and our behavior towards them, we teach children the lesson of freedom.
Children will learn early on:
1. Either that they are autonomous human beings
2. Or that they belong to us and must fit our expectations, desires, and needs.
It’s all on us to teach children that they are free human beings who don’t belong to anyone but themselves.
Children are born unicorns
The world is full of once-upon-a-time unicorns who lost their horns in childhood.
Parents who unknowingly wither their children’s sense of freedom are slowly chipping away at their spiraled horn.
