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It might just be a generational thing, but how stupid do you think ten year olds are? It's silly to think that even an eight year old is as naive as you're des
by Mononokay 9y ago
It might just be a generational thing, but how stupid do you think ten year olds are?
It's silly to think that even an eight year old is as naive as you're describing - you should just tell your child what he shouldn't do, and let him go on those guidelines.
- danaris 9y agoI think most eight- or ten-year-olds of my acquaintance (present or former) would, if simply told, "Don't do X," be strongly inclined to immediately go out and do X. If, however, they were told, "It's not a good idea to do X, because Y," they'd be much more likely to think twice about it.
- Mononokay 9y agoThat's what I was meaning, yeah.
- sathackr 9y agoJust recently in the news: tl;dr: 10 year old girl talks to a man on a game, tells him where she lives, leaves a note to her parents saying she went to a friend's house. He picks her up, takes her to a motel and rapes her. http://www.theledger.com/news/20180329/polk-county-sheriffs-office-man-kidnapped-sexually-abused-girl-10 http://www.theledger.com/news/20180329/polk-county-sheriffs-... I bet those parents wish they had been paying more attention to what she was doing online. Not every 10 year old is that naive and not every 10 year old would do something like that. But some 10 year olds are, and someone who does not know the child is not qualified to discern the child's level of naivete. As a parent, I feel I am qualified to discern this and apply the appropriate safeguards to the child's environment to mitigate the dangers until the child is capable of handling the risks himself.