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RE: Weird Science! : When It Comes To Science, How Young Is Too Young?
That's an amazing form of parenting, wish people were taught to question everything more. Sounds like you're giving your kids a head start in life. :)
But maybe it would be a good thing to teach them about making compromises and saying things more gently, kids can be way too direct and that might make them become outsiders, I know what it's like to think differently than everyone else in a room and people usually can't stand someone who proves them wrong all the time, is too different etc.
Please don't think I want your kids to be a part of the herd, but it can sometimes be advantageous and a bit easier.
I actually agree with you. I don't want them fall into the herd, but I think it wouldn't hurt to work out some way to keep them from becoming alienated and that may mean letting their friends bend the laws of this universe from time to time ;)
I think the whole point of this article was that we've driven this concept now so deeply that it could be beginning to backfire. It's also possible that this isn't the problem and it's just that 2 little girls failed to find common ground in their imaginary play. As a parent I always worry about giving my children bad advice that could alienate them though. Hence the questions.
Children are after all, the weirdest science experiment around. ;)
Yeah maybe we're both just putting too much weight on a thing that 2 little girls said haha :)
That has been an issue for us as well. There was a time around pre-school / kindergarten when my son was having a lot of conversations in which little kids told him (seemingly with the best of intentions) that he was going to hell, based on what they had heard from their parents. It took him a while to develop any kind of filter, or a concept of "choose your battles." Have you seen The Invention of Lying with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner? Those people had no filters either, going well beyond deliberate falsehood in their definition of lying.