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A silly convention in my opinion. Children only need to be reared because the parents often times do not live by their own principles and ethics (nobody is perf

by Ixiaus 17y ago

A silly convention in my opinion. Children only need to be reared because the parents often times do not live by their own principles and ethics (nobody is perfect, I do understand this, I mean it in the majority of life experiences). Children learn by example - punishment, guilt, anything on the end of the stick that trains the child into feeling bad and conforming to someone else's wishes is archaic and stagnates social evolution. On that same note though, free will is free will - I just focus on my beliefs, principles, and do my best to live by them no matter what in the hopes that I either meet someone that is living theirs more than mine, or I inspire someone to live by theirs. Whether that be an adult or child doesn't particularly matter.

shpxnvz 17y ago
I've spent the last 15 months watching what and how my baby girl learns, and I can definitively say that she does not learn only by example, which means that some other form of guidance in necessary. It's certainly true that children mimic many things we do which become ingrained behaviors in time, but it is not the only way they learn. Case in point; my daughter has never seen a person touch a hot stove, run into a table at full speed, spit food across the room, pee on the carpet, bite someone's toe, chew a crayon, or any of a thousand other things she'll attempt to do until we teach her otherwise. Let's face it, at this stage she's a chemically fueled entropy machine. Her instinct is to try everything she can think of just to see what happens. In activities where she does behave by mimicking, for instance eating, we've adopted the behavior we'd like her to learn - we eat almost exclusively what she should, but this won't stop her from attempting innumerable dangerous or socially unacceptable behaviors before she can reason for herself, and in those case there is more needed than just leading by example. Of course, the children in this research are a little bit older, and I am very curious to see how her behavior changes in the next few years.

by Ixiaus 17y ago

shpxnvz 17y ago

I've spent the last 15 months watching what and how my baby girl learns, and I can definitively say that she does not learn only by example, which means that some other form of guidance in necessary. It's certainly true that children mimic many things we do which become ingrained behaviors in time, but it is not the only way they learn. Case in point; my daughter has never seen a person touch a hot stove, run into a table at full speed, spit food across the room, pee on the carpet, bite someone's toe, chew a crayon, or any of a thousand other things she'll attempt to do until we teach her otherwise. Let's face it, at this stage she's a chemically fueled entropy machine. Her instinct is to try everything she can think of just to see what happens. In activities where she does behave by mimicking, for instance eating, we've adopted the behavior we'd like her to learn - we eat almost exclusively what she should, but this won't stop her from attempting innumerable dangerous or socially unacceptable behaviors before she can reason for herself, and in those case there is more needed than just leading by example. Of course, the children in this research are a little bit older, and I am very curious to see how her behavior changes in the next few years.