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I'm ideologically similar to Jonathan Haidt with regards to child rearing.
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I'm with dear old Timothy Leary. The brain has 4 [terrestrial] circuits that turn on sequentially that could be characterized as self/family/tribe/nation. Children are as competent as their adult self, within their current domain. Bucky Fuller said you learn half of everything by the time you're four.
I've seen single parent families (and once two-parent) families where the child though persistence and copious free time has taken control of their adult minder. Second circuit stuff.
Children supposedly can't see the consequences of their actions. Many adults can't see the consequences of their actions. Philosophers (and ex-cons
) know the consequences of their actions. Monks ruminate on the consequences of their actions, and maybe take it a little too far.
I'd seen how the schools treated his two older half-brothers. I'd seen the beginnings of the 'long march through the institutions' when I was in college. The grade schools weren't as infiltrated as they are today, but it had already started.