Great speech. Learning to trust your gut and your self is critical. Or perhaps, it is learning not to trust it is probably why people get lost. We start out

Great speech. Learning to trust your gut and your self is critical. Or perhaps, it is learning not to trust it is probably why people get lost. We start out in life trusting ourselves. But we are taught and conditioned to not trust it. Please avoid doing that if you're raising a child. Allow your child to explore and make mistakes, to train their own gut with experience. That doesn't mean you never make demands upon them. Life makes demands and you can't prepare them for it without doing the same. But you can't make every decision for them and spare them of consequences of mistakes. You have to protect them from permanently hurting themselves to a degree while they develop, but at some point, you have to push them out of the nest and let them fly.