Parenting....................

     Our upbringing was also filled with the hazards of an unconventional life.  Our parents never set out to put us in danger, of course; they would have defended us from anything, died before they let us be harmed.  But they would not shelter us.  To shelter us where we grew up would have been to fail to prepare us.  They walked that line as best they could, and all too often they got it wrong.  But in the end we survived all we ever faced, and we came out strong and largely unafraid of life, with the full knowledge of its dangers.

-Boyd Varty, Cathedral of the Wild