Imagine you are going for surgery and the doctor tells you 'yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing, really'.
You'd be very interested in knowing whether it's 'I just graduated from med school, I'm barely competent', or 'I've been doing this 30 years, the more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know'.
Those are not the same.
Insecurity is there for a reason - to let you know you should tread carefully and learn more.
The feeling of insecurity will go away when you're competent. The feeling of wonder and curiosity hopefully remains until you die - the author's problem is not the feeling of wonder that the parent is referring to :)
You'd be very interested in knowing whether it's 'I just graduated from med school, I'm barely competent', or 'I've been doing this 30 years, the more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know'.
Those are not the same.
Insecurity is there for a reason - to let you know you should tread carefully and learn more.
The feeling of insecurity will go away when you're competent. The feeling of wonder and curiosity hopefully remains until you die - the author's problem is not the feeling of wonder that the parent is referring to :)