Among our main roles and responsibility as parents is to teach, coach, guide and pass on to our children the character (and I do mean character) traits of self-reliance, resourcefulness, initiative, taking responsibility for one’s actions and learning from one’s mistakes (see “How to Raise a Self-Confident Child“).
I’m not sure I buy the whole premise of this article but I liked the list of character traits that parents should help develop in their children.
Dale Dougherty 