Sometimes, parenting demands that parents...
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Sometimes, parenting demands that parents neither reward nor punish their children for their significant behavior. Sometimes, no matter the circumstances, parents remain "hands off," appearing to be passive. Such a style of parenting is done in selective situations because parents have learned that children need to solve their own problems and to discover their own internal rewards for living correctly.
When parents choose to remain in the background to help strengthen their children, they aren't in any way neutral or disinterested. They're profoundly interested and involved. Usually it takes years before children can identify and understand their parents' silence. They realize that their parents were exercising patience. As 2 Peter states, the children can then regard the parents' apparent non-involvement as the strenuous exercise of patience on their behalf.
When parents choose to remain in the background to help strengthen their children, they aren't in any way neutral or disinterested. They're profoundly interested and involved. Usually it takes years before children can identify and understand their parents' silence. They realize that their parents were exercising patience. As 2 Peter states, the children can then regard the parents' apparent non-involvement as the strenuous exercise of patience on their behalf.
