I recently read the following article, which made some interesting points about the merits of raising your children to be good people rather than raising them to be happy.
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/teaching-children-to-do-good/
But I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. I think you can nurture confidence in your child while at the same time teaching kindness. Although this article argues otherwise, I believe that our children's self esteem is vitally important. It's just that we need to teach them to have esteem for others as well. As I've said before, your kid should know that they're the center of the universe... and they need to know that everyone else is, too.
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