In my last post, I said that children shouldn't be forced to do stuff, and instead you should offer advice. But what advice should you offer? The advice should be designed to help, not manipulate. So, offer the advice you think the child would want. Not advice designed to get the child to do or think a certain thing you think is good. (Unless the ( Read more... )

When you force children to do things you think are good (or to not do things you think are bad), that means that any irrationalities you have will be passed on to them (because they can't properly try out dissenting ideas ( Read more... )