Editor’s note: Barry Courter has a 25-year-old son who is a college graduate and a 21-year-old daughter who is a junior in college.
Q: Dad, what is one of the harder parenting lessons you had to learn?
A: As I’ve said before, knowing when to let your child fail on his or her own and when to “help” is very tough. Parents naturally want to make life easy and comfortable for their children, but we can go too far. Sometimes we make it so easy the child expects things should or will always be done for him or her.