5694 When Should You FORCE Your Kids?

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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"Hey Stef! How are you preparing/have prepared Izzy for the harsh world, in the context of peaceful parenting?"

"A lot of people say they believe in the theory of evolution, but how many do actually understand it? What do you think?"

"should we send our daughter to private school? She has been homeschooled her whole life and then last year she went to private school for about 80% of the school year (we did a late enrollment). We wanted her to continue to go, but she does not want to go, citing disagreements with classmates, teasing. Overall, we think it's a good school and our other 2 kids enjoy going there. What is the balance between pushing your kids outside of their comfort zone and also taking into consideration them not wanting to do something? Our kids were forced into piano when they were younger and hated it so we stopped. They will occasionally say they were glad they were forced to play piano because it gave them a skill and they will still play. That's the moral dilemma I am trying to articulate... thanks Stefan!"

"Tucker Carlson remarked recently that Bitcoin was probably invented by the CIA. It sounds crazy to me yet the CIA has been doing very shady things for a long time. Would love to get your thoughts."

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0:00.0	Good morning, good morning everybody, hope you're doing well.
0:03.6	More great questions from the fine listeners at free domain.com.
0:07.8	We will start with, hey, Steve, how are you preparing or have prepared Izzy?, your daughter 15 years old, almost 16, for the
0:16.3	harsh world in the context of peaceful parenting?
0:18.8	It's a fine, fine question and I really, really do appreciate you asking it and I will tell you what the plan has
0:25.8	been so far so good but we shall see now. So there's sort of two questions or approaches of how to toughen someone up for the world.
0:40.0	The first is to keep them relatively sheltered from adversity until they gain the skills and strength and through that
0:51.8	being sheltered they gain the skills and strength to deal
0:55.1	with crazy disruptive people in the world and that is the child proofing the
1:02.1	home right so you don't just let a kid tumble down the stairs And that is the child proofing the home, right?
1:02.7	So you don't just let a kid tumble down the stairs,
1:05.2	you don't let the kid stick forks in electrical sockets,
1:08.7	you keep the kid safe until the kid is old enough to understand the dangers and navigate through life accordingly.
1:17.0	In other words, early exposure to dangers that can't really be comprehended,
1:21.5	weakens and endangers and might in fact kill the child.
1:25.3	So that is the keep the child sheltered until the strength has grown to, and the knowledge
1:31.0	has grown and the wisdom has grown to deal with crazy
1:34.3	people or crazy circumstances in life is at number one. Number two is more
1:39.7	around the analogy of the immune system and the muscles.
1:44.0	And what that is, is something like,
1:48.5	well, you want to expose your children
1:51.4	to drinking from the garden hose to playing in the dirt.
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