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148 sats \ 2 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 28 Feb \ on: What are your hopes for your children? meta
I want my children to be able to live comfortably while pursuing their passions and talents, while creating great relationships and maintaining great family ties. I want them to have independent minds and critical thinking skills that make them unafraid to be right when most everyone else is wrong. Where I am, none of that is encouraged by schools.
Iām sorry to hear that the schools in your nation suck š
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Are you doing anything in particularly to ensure that your child develops those crucial critical thinking skills?
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Adult conversations. Talking to them with the assumption that they will understand and glean with context. Challenging ideas while validating them. Allowing free thought and experimentation, considering ideas and statements and not shutting them down. Asking questions.
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Encouraging reading
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TikTok / YouTube. A variety of perspectives and an understanding that scams exist, that many content creators are using their creativity to induce your click.
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Variety of experience. Ensuring that it's not only what I can see that they are exposed to.
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Each other. Natural competition in 'being right' has brought them to a level of lawyering beyond what I could ever engineer :D
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