Do you open it all up. Do you talk to him about sex and death and money at 3?
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Replying to @tannerguzy
Death and money, yes. He’s asked us about death. He’s learning about money. Sex, not much unless he asks and then only what he can handle. We look at comprehension ability and emotional security so he’s not scared by too much, but it’s not about maintaining an innocence.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Is maintaining innocence a worthwhile goal at all or is it something that should be removed?
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Replying to @tannerguzy
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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Replying to @TheBrometheus @tannerguzy
I also don’t bludgeon him down with bleak misery so that he can’t play with his toys because he’s busy plotting his financial growth. But he knows he’s going to grow up and work to help me provide for our family, and that his lessons are to make him a better man to fight dangers.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Yeah there’s a difference between Disney movies, reading Grimm’s fairy tales, and watching GoT with your 6-year-old.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @tannerguzy
But speaking of fairy tales... they did nothing to preserve a child’s naive innocence. And these were lessons handed down so ubiquitously they survived through oral tradition into modern day. Ancient people taught hard truths to the smallest children, to prepare them.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @tannerguzy
Look at what the prince does that wakes up sleeping beauty in the original tale, 9 months after he finds her sleeping.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Exactly. Innocence may not be what I’m after but I don’t want to expose my kids to all the world’s brutality.
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Emotional security, then. Yes that’s incredibly important. Teaching them hard truths about the world and the corruptible nature of power, for example, is different from waking them up at 2am screaming “THE GOVERNMENT WILL SOMEDAY TRY TO HARVEST YOUR ORGANS”.
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