Is Your Overbearing Parenting Helping or Hindering

A conversation about parenting styles and how our choices affect our children's intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. Some parents have an idea of what they want their children's lives to look like. They often pull concepts and activities from their personal book of life and push their children into a certain way of being. Certain sports, activities, standards... But when we do this, are we minimizing our children's ability to explore and truly find their own path? To stumble a bit to discover their personal passions. Anyone can get good at anything with enough practice and push. But if we rely on these extrinsic motivators instead of operating intrinsically out of our true personal passion, the result could be developing kids who never really step into their own.