Their Nature

The trick to helping each young person  to  actualize her marvelous potentiality is to provide structure, love, discipline,  guidance and direction without seeking to snuff out her natural bents. If parents, teachers,  pastors and police officers bring up a child to  be a good, inudstrious, ambitious and pious youngster, and then begin pulling back to allow her to do her own thing, doing what is natural for her, however repugnant that bent may seem to us (For example, her parents are wealthy wine merchants, and she wants to be a sailor for life in the merchant marines.), we have gotten out of the way so she can be her natural self, developing her individualism, perhaps even maverizing.