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There's no good way to force anything on kids. Because they are just as capable of free will as you and want to win at least as badly as you do. If you can't
by brudgers 3y ago
There's no good way to force anything on kids.
Because they are just as capable of free will as you and want to win at least as badly as you do.
If you can't figure out how to work through it together, that's on you as the adult. It's not on the child.
Good luck.
- flappyeagle 3y agoIf they manage to defeat the technical solution then it’s a good lesson. Still a win.
- brudgers 3y agoAnd a lesson that the relationship with the parent is adversarial.
- flappyeagle 3y agoAlways has been
- brudgers 3y agoI always looked at the world as if everyone's parent-child relationships were more or less like mine. Now I think that was an error. Corporal punishment is an example. Some parent-child relationships include it. Some don't. I don't assume one or the other. My relationship with my child is nurturing, not competitive. I want my child to be better at everything than I am. YMMV.
- flappyeagle 3y agoIron sharpens iron