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Raising your children, talking to strangers, charity, you name it.

• benj111 8y ago
  Do you mean you shouldn't raise your kids based on science? You shouldn't experiment to see what works with your child, or you just shouldn't do experiments on your child?
  • Erlich_Bachman 8y ago
    Children need love, compassion and a lot of patience. They want to be treated like living beings, not like science projects. Yes science in general can obviously make some generic guidelines or provide some good insights in very specific questions of this childraising enterprise, but the vast majority of choices and everyday actions will fall outside of this.
    • benj111 8y ago
      "and a lot of patience" I find the distance, that analysing behaviour brings, actually helps with the patience, and compassion (if they're having a weird tantrum because they wanted something trivial). I also think it keeps me motivated in consciously raising my kids, rather than just passively whiling away the years. Maybe I have younger kids, so there aren't really any philosophical issues being raised.