Encouragment or pressure? Last Saturday I visited my friends and we watched a very good film "Promise at dawn". If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend to do it. It's biopic of a famous French writer - Romain Gary. To my shame, I didn't read any of his book, but now I'm going to do it. The film describes his childhood, youth and most of all his mother. She always believed her son is a genius. She talked about it, she encouraged him and forced him to be a person she wanted him to be. This film have made me think: where is that narrow edge between encouragment, that helps, and pressure, that damages the young mind? How to be caring and helping, but not oppressive for a child. It's complicated and important question for all parents and I'm not the exception.