giving a pair of wings

found these words on a blog i've encountered today.

"Now that my son is close to being an adult, we have to learn to cut the apron strings too.

All too often, we are tempted to provide him with a solution when he encounters problems.

But now we have to learn to listen to him more for him to work out his difficulties himself. As parents, we always proclaim that we want the best for our child. But is the best really for him or for ourselves? When we help him to make a career choice, is it based on sound judgment or based on our unfulfilled dreams? When we give him opinions about his girlfriends, did we base our views on the kind of daughter-in-law we want or on the one he can love?

Ultimately the best birthday gift we can give our son is not another guitar or hand phone but a pair of wings to fly and explore his brave new world."

it got me thinking. will post my reflection once my thoughts have settled down.