- It's important to acknowledge our failures and fallibility with children. We often think and put an unrealistic expectation on ourselves to always be right, just and all knowing. - It's important to say I don't know, say that I might have made a mistake and let the children know that despite your best efforts it might happen. - On days like [[2019-04-25]] I felt that if I had allowed myself to be more honest and not put so much pressure on myself to be just then the children would have appreciated it a lot more. ---- we are not honest about ourselves, our own fears, limitations, weaknesses, prejudices, motives. We present ourselves to children as if we were gods, all-knowing, all-powerful, always rational, always just, always right. This is worse than any lie we could tell about ourselves - [[How Children Fail]]