Occasionally people accuse me of inventing the conversations with my kids that I post on Twitter. What this tells me (besides that they're super nasty) is that these people don't have kids.
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One thing parents know that most non-parents don't: how much more kids can understand than you'd guess. You can talk to a 9 or 10 year old almost like an adult and they'll understand most of it.
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Incidentally, I don't talk to my kids like peers just for their sakes. I'm not trying to turn them into little prodigies. I talk to them this way because it's much more interesting than talking down to them.
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Because they listen...
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this explains why adults tend to lose the ability to understand other adults
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Most parents even underestimate the children’s potential from my vantage point.
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They’ll also like you better if you do.
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true, i think because most of the kids listen and trust their parents.
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What stood out to you about how their understanding developed with age?
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That the biggest obstacle when they were really young was impatience rather than stupidity. So increased understanding came almost automatically as they learned more patience.
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Children can understand the world even better than many adults. Insightful question from my 6yo: "Why can't cousins get married and decide not to have children?" How can you answer that?
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It's the same as the answer to "why can't I say &#%$" - a large number of people would be upset by it, and we should respect those feelings until such time as they change.
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