we just want the best for our children. Just like everywhere else, our children grow up to be good, caring, involved people. One thing that books like to criticize about Western parents is that they don’t allow the children to play by themselves. It is only me who think that the reason that we do so much with our children is the fact that we have so much fun with them? That spending time with our children, be it playing, teaching, running, laughing or anything else is actually fun and we do it because we want to and not because we have to? We are not authority figures and we don’t strive to be ones. Instead, we want to be friends and advocates and confidants of our children. We do not expect our children to behave; instead we want them to be themselves.