What most nurturing parents will do is tell their child how great they are. That they’re unique, special one of a kind, they’re an outstanding human. Then they’ll gloat that little Jimmy is so athletic, or he could count to 100, or Anna is so cute, to everyone who’ll listen.
Then we actually begin to believe and become proud of ourselves, that we are truly special people.
As we then go through the passage of school, begin to grow a mind of our own with opinions, we gasp. Hey wait …