Libra children are not simple
personalities to develop. They are sympathetic children, both clinging and reserved. They
respond to affection shyly, and yet in their inner nature they crave love. They want to
respond, but have so much restraint that it is hard for them to relax. The special work of
the parent with this type of child is to teach it to unfold.
They have a good mentality, intellectual leanings, and very
often-marked artistic talents along the lines of painting, drawing, and music, dancing or
acting. But with all these possibilities, they have apathetic dispositions and no energy
or personal urge to develop any parts of their capabilities themselves. They are supremely
unambitious. The parent must seek out the bent, and very early in the life develop
ambition and the ability to get ahead. For without the cultivation of direction in the
life, this type of child will grow up frittering away the talents without the stability or
the will power to succeed.
As a child approaches the teens, the parents face another problem. These children are so
responsive and delicately tuned to physical urges that they are likely to experiment too
deeply to discover the sources and results of these sensations that give them so much
delight. They are very self indulgent, and place no moral valuation upon sexual
experiments. It might be advisable to be clear and open in talking to an adolescent Libra
upon the values of the proper time and the place for sex in the life of an adult.
A good deal of responsibility rests with the parents in what
kind of a person their Libra children will grow up to be, and while this is true for all
children, the Libra child, as can plainly be seen from this characterisation, presents
some especially delicate problems. |
