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How do you expose your children to truth? How do you explain ethics, reality, and society at large to a child? How many parents blatantly lie about ethics and reality to their children?
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Apart from the lie about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny my parent told me always the truth.
I might not always have understood complex ethical issues, but my father still followed the maxim of trying to explain them to me whenever I asked.
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Children by nature will attach to the closest powerful human as a means of survival, how do we explain the difference between love and attachment to children?
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By living the concept of love and loving the child.
Love isn't something that you push on people.
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Children are hardly ever taken seriously, they can easily be shown their power is meaningless compared to the authority and violence of parenting.
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If the parent doesn't take the child seriously the parent simply isn't up to the task of being a good parent.
A 5 year old is often able to give arguments for his case. If the child makes good arguments there should be no need to use authority or violence to force the child to do something.
It simply about having a honest discussion with the child and respecting its opinion. Arguments with a child should be seldom decided by authority alone and never by violence.