A retirement advice thrown about is one needs to retire to something.
From Will Storr’s book, The Status Game: Kids, raised by parents who treat their kids as precious and equals of themselves, lack sense of security, respect, humility and were delicate and fragile.
Sole proprietors tell me that it is hard to be self disciplined and structure your day. Self studying is harder because of the lack of discipline.
In my own parenting experience, too much freedom from expectations creates bad behaviours in my kids.
Creativity and innovation is a response to boundary testing. Structure in our lives is a type of boundary. Is boundary what we crave?