How should parents help children to be independent?

Nowadays, the number of single-child family is increasingly growing under the Family Policy. It’s not surprising that the child, viewed as the apple of the parents’ eye, get so much attention that there is a lack of independence in the life. While the parents are eager to make a fuss over their child, they must be aware that it is their too much love that makes the children’s inability to confront the difficulties from the life.

It is necessary for parents to provide love for their child in a right way. First，they are supposed not to pray for an easy life for their child. Children should be exposed to the real world, and with parents help they will make it clear that life is filled with ups and downs. Second, parents do as a leader to give children a right direction and other things are left to children. Last but not least, parents’ approval of right decision from children and encouragement to children when they fail is the strength of the growth for children. Sharing children’s success with them and helping them when necessary is more vital than too much love.

If parents can act as they realize the importance of helping their children as independent as much, they will find a real short- cut to a happy life for their children.