November 7, 2023
Remind children
* Western parents don’t feel that their children already are who they are – they feel it is their job to make them who they should be.
They treat their children more as objects than as individuals who already are themselves.
Children feel this as a burden…. A pressure.
And they develop an armor to guard against it.
[Their] anger is a reflection of that armor….
All the energy is going into the resistance….
But inside, the child feels empty.
They don’t know who they are or what they want.
They can’t feel their own desire; they know only anger.
The anger that comes from being treated as an object. ~ Mark Epstein, Open to desire (2005) .
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