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# parenting principle #1
- URL: https://www.arrieta.io/parenting-principle-1/
- Published: 2023-09-17T20:35:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-10T06:01:08.000Z
- Description: raising a child is perhaps the most complex journey of all, but success is likely governed by few principles. And this is one of them.
- Author: luis arrieta
- Tags: family, notes

this quote has stuck for a while.

It doesn't matter where I heard it ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/EfoxW3exaok?ref=arrieta.io)). 

It's powerful in its simplicity. Raising a child is perhaps the most complex journey of all, but success is likely governed by few principles.

And this is one of them:

> “Your job as a parent is to teach your kids to be the masters of their environment, not to fear it.”