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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 688211" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Darkwing, thank you very much for your reply. It means a great deal to me.</p><p></p><p>I am curious. What are your plans? I agree, you write very, very well and I assume you are articulate to the same degree.</p><p></p><p>My thinking about careers is that it is often not the best thing to pick a career based upon strengths. Why, you may ask? Because sometimes what comes easy to us allows us to slide through in life, rather than have to build character in ourselves, as I am having to do in myself vis a vis my son.</p><p></p><p>I was a laissez-faire parent. Live and let live. Actually more to the point, I was like that artist from France, Rousseau, that's his name who believed in the noble savage. That we were born good and our nature if just left alone would flower. </p><p></p><p>I know now that people are constructed and construct themselves.</p><p></p><p>My son thrived with this kind of parenting. Up to a point. But the real world demands more than mother love. And in not demanding more, and investing more than love, I let him down. At the time I was told by a psychiatrist that it had been wise to limit my demands on him. Right or wrong, I do not intend keeping to the same plan.</p><p></p><p>I am curious what you have thought of doing, in terms of work/career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 688211, member: 18958"] Darkwing, thank you very much for your reply. It means a great deal to me. I am curious. What are your plans? I agree, you write very, very well and I assume you are articulate to the same degree. My thinking about careers is that it is often not the best thing to pick a career based upon strengths. Why, you may ask? Because sometimes what comes easy to us allows us to slide through in life, rather than have to build character in ourselves, as I am having to do in myself vis a vis my son. I was a laissez-faire parent. Live and let live. Actually more to the point, I was like that artist from France, Rousseau, that's his name who believed in the noble savage. That we were born good and our nature if just left alone would flower. I know now that people are constructed and construct themselves. My son thrived with this kind of parenting. Up to a point. But the real world demands more than mother love. And in not demanding more, and investing more than love, I let him down. At the time I was told by a psychiatrist that it had been wise to limit my demands on him. Right or wrong, I do not intend keeping to the same plan. I am curious what you have thought of doing, in terms of work/career. [/QUOTE]
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