I treat my son like the man he will be someday. I make allowance for his brain development phases and I extend great patience as he learns, but I never treat him “like a kid.” Parents who coddle children until their teens and then say “Okay, time to learn how to live” are cruel.
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My approach has always been to give my son the truth as he needs it or asks for it. We don’t do the stork or Santa because when I tell him about our Lord Jesus Christ I don’t want a past web of lies and hidden truths to lead him to doubt what I teach.
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Is maintaining innocence a worthwhile goal at all or is it something that should be removed?
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Depends what one means by innocence. Youthful naïveté isn’t something I believe will serve him in life, and the sooner he learns the truth of how the world works the more time he’ll have to process it and put it into effect. But I don’t unload on him so fast he becomes insecure.
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