Parenting means making mistakes.
The first mistake is to assume that what worked for your generation will work the same way for your child--for good or ill.
Some people become self-actualized and 'successful' under great pressure to perform...others crumble and self-destruct.
Some people remain infants when treated as incompetent, others burst forth in total competence.
To treat people as identical is a huge error.
What is success in a world where 1% of the people need to work to create and operate society?
We live in an age where 'unlearning' is often as or more important than learning.
We live in an age where 'you have no job, thus are worthless' cannot be true without destroying society.
We live in an age where money is completely theoretical. Where theft and lies are not only common but rewarded, where hard work beget not success, but more hard work, where notoriaty is worth as much or more than talent.
We teach 'everything you need to know' in Kindergarten...and spend the next decade of education and life experiance teaching you that those things are lies, that greed and selfishness, backstabbing and lies are the route to success.
Major change is coming over the next 12 years...society's basic rules are becoming obsolete and reorganized. Unfortunately, none of our leaders have a clue, and thus will continue to try the same old techniques expecting similar results and being disappointed.
There is a difference between capitalism and unbridled greed.
Scarcity of resources is no longer an actual situation, it has become a created pattern of thought.
Highly concentrated, anything from water to power becomes corrupting and dangerous.
