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I hope you'll take the time to teach your children to think independently, and when you do you'll discover that as they grow a bit older they'll have different
by gizmo 2y ago
I hope you'll take the time to teach your children to think independently, and when you do you'll discover that as they grow a bit older they'll have different values and draw different conclusions on issues you care about. I think it's fine to be a contrarian and opinionated parent but if you demand that your children share all (or even the majority) of your contrarian beliefs you're doing them a great disservice and you set them up for failure down the line.
- ndriscoll 2y agoThe entire point of not accepting surveillance and advertising is to help them develop to be independent, have a strong internal sense of self-worth, and derive happiness from within. The surveillance/ad industry has exactly the opposite goal: make them feel judged at all times, base their self-worth on the perceived opinion of others (including people they've never even met), and have that perceived opinion be that if they buy X they will reacquire their stolen happiness. The beautiful thing about being a contrarian is you can only win: either they agree with you, so you must've gotten through to them, or they don't, so you must've gotten through to them.