how can I best help my kids become well-balanced open minded productive intelligent and well-prepared adults and not spoiled whiny brats”.
On re-reading, I think that “well-balanced open minded” implies that you are concerned with being too strict as well as being too permissive, but my attention was caught by the higher emotion level of the last clause.
Also, it was just a one-sentence summary of why religion wasn’t my main concern when talking about “rational parenting”, you shouldn’t read too much into it :)
No—where did I give that impression?
On re-reading, I think that “well-balanced open minded” implies that you are concerned with being too strict as well as being too permissive, but my attention was caught by the higher emotion level of the last clause.
Also, it was just a one-sentence summary of why religion wasn’t my main concern when talking about “rational parenting”, you shouldn’t read too much into it :)