Most Cancers are charming, very sweet children whose faces express every change in mood. They love to use their imaginations and can easily be directed and taught discipline while young, provided they receive plenty of warmth, approval and attention.
Parents should laugh and cry with the Cancer child and constantly reassure them when they are scared, which will happen often. Cancer children are usually obedient, but prefer to be leaders rather than followers.
Cancer children are very sensitive if they are offended or rejected and in such cases they need parental support. If they feel neglected and unloved, they will become closed off, forever curled up inside their shell for protection alone.
The Cancer child should feel free to express his emotions. be it poetry, painting, writing, or any other creative activity. The parents of the Cancer child must find some middle ground between too much firmness and too much pampering.. A very appropriate way to achieve this is by teaching the young Cancer to use his natural instincts to care for others.
