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G.F. Erichsen's avatar

One irony is that parents who accept those premises often end up putting way too much pressure on their children, and that can lead to the opposite of the desired outcome. According to the traditional LDS understanding of the pre-existence, a huge portion of the Heavenly Parents’ children decided they didn’t want anything to do with the plan, so why should we mere mortals expect to do better?

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Jamee Andelin's avatar

I really like this article. Thank you for taking the time to write this and share your thoughts. In my experience as a parent of 2 young adults, a teenager and a 12 year old, the pressure to parent my children in a certain way so that they fit into a box or “check off the boxes” was ruining our relationships and I had to decide that it was more important to me to create heaven on earth now. I had to evolve, and in a way. “release” myself from what I thought parenting needed or “should” look like…it’s an ongoing process and writing like this really help me.

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