You are not "raising a child" you are "training a future adult"

People need to understand that the sole job of being a parent isn't just to protect their kid. It's also to train your kid to NOT grow up to be an asshole. If you do everything for them while they're kids, they will never learn to be part of our society. Letting a kid do something like interact with another child and possibly get a little mad at each other, teaches them to work things out themselves, make up, and ultimately just how to deal with life. Our children are too coddled.

EDIT - What I was really getting at is - If you raise a child, people keep the kid [as they are now] as the main focus. Too many parents fail to keep the adult they will become as a high priority. Example - Letting a child play in the backyard with themselves for a little while, encourages a sense of self, imagination, and learning how to figure out whatever it is they're doing on their own. Though if you go out there every single time and play with them and DON'T give them any of that time, they end up NEEDING to have someone next to them. They don't figure things out easily on their own, and they can become co-dependent.