I've heard that the young adults of today, spoiled and incessantly praised throughout their childhood, display an appalling lack of modesty and a sense of entitlement. Evidently, there are even management training seminars on how to deal with the youngest members of the workforce. Well, not MY kids! I thought. Certainly I can strike a balance, instilling in my children both humility and self-confidence, both an ability to recognize their strengths without arrogance and a knack for identifying and improving areas of weakness. Should be easy enough!
Or . . . not. This morning Cameron said to me, as he drew an impressive square, "I'm going to be an engineer." Before I could respond, he added, "A very talented engineer. I'll be a gooder engineer than daddy." Wow. Perhaps I've been a bit heavy handed with the compliments. I'll have to try to do a gooder job at teaching modesty.
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Cameron, I hope you become the goodest engineer of them all.
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