How do you know that they know what they are talking about...if you've never questioned them, then you are just blindly believing what you've been told!
Also, in my post that is not what I was getting at when I said we need to care for our children more...and it shows me that not only did you not interpret it correctly, but that you have a limited understanding of the psychology of children and how they operate.
What I am saying is that if we treat our children with respect and nurture their minds and believe in them, instead of ABUSING them, then they will have more self-esteem as children, and so will more likely grow into adults with high self-esteem also.
It's not about drumming the need to OBEY into the,. I personally don't think that's totally healthy either. A child needs to be able to think for themselves. What you are saying is the antithesis of that...you just think it's o.k to have a society of mindless drones who just go along with whatever they are told because the government knows best! That's more dangerous in my view, than it is to break a few rules!
Rules are made by control freaks. Perhaps if we encouraged the use of common sense in individuals everyone would think for themselves and you wouldn't need a group of people in charge to make the rules, because people would already know that one action may be harmful to someone else, and they wouldn't do it...because there would be mutual respect. That's what is lacking these days.
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