Many parents I know – myself included – have lived that familiar moment when a child comes home from school quieter than usual. Shoes are left by the door, the backpack is placed aside without a word, and when we ask the routine question, “How was your day?”, the answer comes softly: “I don’t want to go tomorrow.”
Sometimes the reason is clear: a disagreement with a friend or feeling left out during break time. At other times, the child cannot fully explain what happened; they only know that something felt uncomfortable. These small, everyday moments unfold in many homes and quietly remind us that even confident, happy children can feel overwhelmed by experiences adults might easily overlook.
A question I hear often from parents, and occasionally find myself asking, is whether we have made childhood too easy. Do we offer our children so much comfort, reassurance and protection that even minor difficulties now feel unusually heavy? Or is this not “spoiling” at all, but simply the natural outcome of raising children in a world very different from the one we grew up in?
The question, then, is not whether parents love their children too mu
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