Creating a Life: Orchestrating a Symphony of Self, a Work Always in Progress

… raising [children] is about taking their marvelous strength—I call it “seeing into the soul,”—amplifying it, nurturing it, helping [them] to lead [their lives] around it, to buffer against [their] weaknesses and the storms of life. Raising children, I realized, is vastly more than fixing what is wrong with them. It is about identifying and nurturing their strongest qualities, what they own and are best at, and helping them find niches in which they can best live out these strengths …