"When their lives were different from the ones I’d imagined for them, I couldn’t stop them. **I gave up trying to ever control them: we weren’t connected by some magic string. I could only support them in what they wanted to do.** Sure, I was nervous a lot of the time. But I believed in them and we all got through it." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[trust]], [[parenting]], [[control]], [[self-control]], [[discipline]], [[character]] **Source** -- [[20250101093750 - B - How to Raise Successful People]]