Beyond the panela making it was a very deep process seeing a completely different parenting style to anything I’d seen before. Very interesting. As I understand it the children were completely left to play out childhood, they were given no instructions, no directions, no feedback, literally zero interferences in their process of being children in play and fun. What I witnessed was deep loving presence, the parents are always close by, and that love is unconditional not conditional. Because there was no feedback loop of “good boy, bad boy” for any action they undertook the way I understood it was the children grow up very independent and able to make decisions for themselves and will not people please for external validation. as the children grow a little older they naturally want to copy what their parents are doing and they come closer and closer to their mum or dad and by 8 it looks like the biggest joy for the son was to be “playing” the same game his Dad was, making panela. Let’s call it very hands off parenting and leading by good example. No need for words. Very interesting!