>> ^gwiz665:

Teaching can be proactive. You don't have to wait until your child sees something to teach them about it.
>> ^spoco2:
>> ^gwiz665:
Teach, don't enforce.
That's a generally good idea when training offspring.

It's a pleasant line to spout. But in reality just giving free rein on the internet to a child and saying 'come and ask me about things you see' is a great way to have a fucked up kid.



Yes, but you also don't give a child free reign on the internet. There's shit there, even when you don't go looking for it, which is just not going to do anything but harm them.

'Teach, don't enforce' works when people are older, have developed critical thinking (which should be taught WAY more than it is in schools btw), can process things properly. Kids under 10 (fairly arbitrary number really, plonk in whatever young age) just DO NOT have the ability to process things properly.

Definitely start teaching them about things before they start encountering them, so that when they do they are forearmed, and definitely don't try the iron 'YOU WILL NOT DRINK/do drugs/have sex/beat up goats' line. Definitely go the route of teaching them openly about the plus and minus points of things and let them make up their own mind.

But they have to be older to do that. There are a number of people on the sift who obviously have had little to do with children and think that libertarian ideals hold no matter what age you are. It doesn't work like that.

a dream come true, i can finally really really promote!

thanks rash, thanks all!

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Sly & the Family Stone - Underdog


Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk


Gun Club - Sex Beat


Statler Brothers - Flowers on the wall


The Saints - Stranded


Yann Tiersen/Cantat - A ton étoile


Noir Desir - Le vent nous portera

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>> ^dag:

For many, many people it's a crutch and it can be pretty addictive.


Well so can the internet, alcohol, sex, beating people up, taking drugs. Shit I know people who get shakes if they dont get a cup of coffee every morning.

Alot of things are pretty addictive and become a crutch.