The Key to Growth Agency is the power and freedom to make choices, right or wrong.
Children are able to grow the most when they can exercise their agency.
However, when they use their agency to choose the wrong, they limit their future happiness. To make choices properly, children need knowledge. They need to understand the alternatives, and they need the freedom to choose. As a parent, allowing your children to exercise their agency and choose for themselves is one of the greatest challenges you may face. Some parents force their children to do right, denying them the right of agency.