wasterone

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   by wasterone 9y ago

   Have you read my reply to pysc? I don't think you can 'get out of the game' of punishment. The fact is that you will punish people you are in close relationship to whether you like it or not. Even a frown or silence can be
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   by wasterone 9y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot
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   by wasterone 9y ago

   My guess is that you saw punishment where it was excessive. This is a symptom of that lack of control at a deeper level. But control comes from self-awareness; removing authority would only make matters matters worse. Parents who try to be
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   by wasterone 9y ago

   Yes and because children are people rather than intellectual abstractions they need authority (not domineering but authority backed up by force nonetheless). A developing mind is like a nation, with many strands. I live in a relatively peac
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   by wasterone 9y ago

   Honestly, I suspect you'd probably like them. The fact is that trying to apply any parenting philosophy, however false, is on average going to be an improvement over current parenting. Children are starving for attention and interact
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   by wasterone 9y ago

   >Punishing doesn’t help with learning. The point of punishing isn't to help with learning, it's to restore the emotional connection between parent and child by stopping the parent from hating the child. As Jordan Peterson put