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"You can argue with your parents but not with reality." Put a candy in a box and have them try to argue lots of reasons why the box contains two candies. "Even when you don't know the answer it isn't up for grabs." Don't tell them the # of candies, then have them argue for 5.
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I'd bet hard against this being effective, and even if it was, I doubt that it'd be useful to them as children, or impactful for them as adults. There is very little research indicating that specific parental choices have much impact in the long term.
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Moreover, kids have pretty good intuition, and trying to get them to use reason over that seems like a very questionable call. Specific example: kids are very good at intuiting who to talk to or not, but wouldn't be able to reason about it.
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