One of our greatest challenge as parents is to say "no" to our children and to actually allow them to make mistaes. We, as parents are naturally over protective that we control everything in our children's lives, keeping them away from falling and thus, not teaching them to pick themselves up after every fall. Resilience- being one of the valued trait and skill in life, we need to allow our children to learn from their mistakes even if it breaks our heart. Allowing our children to commit mistakes, to hurt themselves have been a "no no" in filipino parenting. Mark, our friend's brother even said, he thought he was invisible. All these time, he was thinking he's invinsible because he never got hurt. so, when it happened for the first time, he got really depressed because he realized he's human and prone to pain and hurt. Thats really like an eye opening for all of us. We really need to allow our children to fail - to teach them how to survive, how to overcome their problems. If we "save" them everytime things get hard, we will never have children who will soar and do great things in the future. 

Remember how our parents raised us? Remember how many times we fell before learning how to skate in roller blades? Remember how many times we got into an accident before learning how to ride the bike? We all went through all these pain and trouble, so we learn to adapt, to overcome and to soar high. I hope , as we raise our children today, we stop "babying" them. And allow nature to take its course. Biblical parenting is very simple. It simply tells us that God has made parents to guide the children- not to control them, not to baby them.