"Do you have to write it in cursive?" – 6 yo after I explained what a PhD dissertation was
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Discussing a dissertation with your 6-year old? I’m officially failing as a parent.
One of my tricks is to treat them like adults intellectually. It's remarkable how often it works. Adults talk down to kids way more than they need to or even realize.
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Agree
...and kids understand way more than adults give them credit for. -
Kids might even understand more than adults, as kids' native intuition is ground away into oblivion by social conditioning... the more BS training goes through the neural circuits, the rescorla-wagner error fades signal into oblivion.
End of conversation
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Have you compiled a list of your parenting tricks somewhere?
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