Anyone have any good ideas for how to introduce kids to the idea that everything coming from an authority figure shouldn't be taken at face value? Can you raise kids with healthy independence, skepticism and judgment from an early age or do they have to go through the full cycle?
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Replying to @everytstudies
Parenting is applied hegelianism: They go from accepting "Because I say so" to the teenage years of "I am an adult now, leave me along!" to the synthesis of trust+explore right in time for job & independent life.
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Replying to @ArtirKel
I keep wondering if it has to be. Control theory has advanced a lot, why do people have to develop like an insufficiently damped occillation in this day and age?
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Replying to @everytstudies @ArtirKel
Because the system develops new capabilities over the years and has different needs. Not knowing the rules, to learning and enforcing the rules, to making up rules, to understanding they are somewhat arbitrary. Wrt needs,
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I would be cautious about selling narratives that people are untrustworthy. Young children do not have enough social experience or perspective to put this in proper context.
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Maybe. I can't help but wonder if you could learn a different way. In
@Meaningness's terms: inculcate meta-rational thinking habits from the start. Is it possible? Or do I have to have, you know, patience?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Uh, patience is good. You need to figure out what parts kids of different ages are ready to understand. Also, pay attention to how the kid is responding, OFC. Kids differ. Kegan's stages build on Piaget. "Meta" itself seems like for adolescent or even later.
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I was going to say this; but I don’t have children so my opinion would be purely theoretical
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