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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.
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