Parents seek to raise their children to eventually become free, independent, self-reliant, and self-sufficient
adults who can stand on their own feet and live their own lives. As human beings, we hope and plan for this
eventuality because we know that freedom is a condition of humankind. It enables us to be ourselves and to
develop a sense of self also vital to the concepts of being human and being an individual.
Parents engage in their most effective childrearing when they themselves have a good grasp of the concept of
look at primitive humans and their initial inability to create fire. Since they did not know the process of fire
creation, nor even its necessity, they found themselves at the mercy of their conditions. If they felt cold in the
middle of the night, they covered themselves with skins and waited for the sun to rise and warm them. While they
might accidentally create fire at first, they did not enjoy the freedom that fire creation would provide to them
