All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.