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The secret is to not think of them as "small helpless persons" and yourself as their "legal guardian" but to view them as people in training with you as the trainer. The guy sitting next to you in Driver's Ed has a responsibility to keep you from crashing into stuff; that's pretty much what's up, times a couple decades. The other secret is to understand that humans come out premature because the optimal curve fit between brain size and pelvis size involves booting the baby out of the uterus eight weeks earlier than the primate model would suggest. As such, they don't really become persons in training for a while. The first bit they're fetuses on the half shell. Congrats, good luck, and god speed.