Probably the most important thing you can do is you can try to NOT be a helicopter parent.

I've never heard that term before...is that an over protective parent?

Kind of, but also "hovering" nearby to prevent every scraped knee and to step in whenever the child faces any difficulty.

Frequent trips to the third world. Let your child not be so coddled that he/she thinks the greatest misfortune that can befall a person is seeing an offensive costume.

Actually, we already live in the third world :) (Thailand), but the attitude exists here too. When university professors suggested that there should be less censorship the university students rose up against them.