Lack of independence — the inability to make decisions on your own, the habit of looking around and waiting for someone to decide everything for you.
Lack of self-reliance is not entirely and not always a trait of character, more often it is a learned, habitual behavior, either stereotyped from the same people around, or used in connection with certain conditional benefits.
Where do dependent children come from — see →
Dependence is brought up in the same way as any other skill and character trait: primarily with the help of suggestions and reinforcement of dependent behavior↑. Lack of independence is more often a manifestation of demonstrated or learned helplessness, the Parasite’s way of life.
Independence Education
In order for our children (and sometimes already quite adults) to stop being children and become independent, it is important:
- create situations where independence is possible and within their power,
- create situations where independence and adulthood are prestigious and become attractive,
- create situations where independence is obligatory and simply forced. See →