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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6026 Raising Children for a Peaceful World!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Listener Mailbag - Questions from June 2014!

In this episode of Freedomain, I discuss the critical role of early childhood experiences in shaping behavior and emphasize the importance of a nurturing environment during the first five years of life. I share personal insights on recognizing aggression and moral virtue while highlighting the need for self-awareness to navigate life's challenges.

We explore technology's potential to identify childhood trauma and the societal hesitance to embrace such advancements. Additionally, I address skepticism around utopia, linking it to personal ethical shortcomings, and advocate for a moral responsibility to protect our families and communities. The episode emphasizes awareness, personal accountability, and the pursuit of truth in fostering a just society.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody, Stefan Mollon, you from Freedom Main Radio, listener mailbag time. I hope you're doing well.

0:05.3

Steph, why do you say that we're only five years away from a peaceful society? If everyone raises their kids peacefully for those first five years, why five years? Why five years? Why not 10 years? Wouldn't there be issues between those children raised peacefully and those have been raised through aggression and further

0:21.9

broken by culture.

0:25.6

Well, the reason I say five years is the human brain develops to 90% capacity in the first

0:32.6

five years of life, and the majority of that development occurs with reference to the environment,

0:38.9

to what's going on. If you grow up in a house speaking Spanish, you will speak Spanish. If you

0:43.2

grow up in a Muslim household, you're most likely to be a Muslim and to imbibe or incorporate

0:48.0

the cultural values of your environment. And so if everybody raises their child peacefully,

0:53.6

and then this is not just the first five years,

0:55.6

that's the first five years after being born.

0:57.6

It's nine months prior to being born, which also needs to be peaceful and calm.

1:02.7

And then we will simply develop, for the most part, bulletproof kids who won't be intimidated

1:08.2

by authority, who will have no problem speaking back, and so on.

1:12.2

And it's like my daughter, she lost her first tooth.

1:17.2

And people are saying to her, oh, did you get any money from the tooth fairy?

1:21.5

And she's like, seriously, why do you think the tooth fairy exists?

1:26.3

She's correct.

1:27.5

And she's five, right?

1:28.8

So she's just not intimidated by that kind of stuff.

1:32.1

And I hope that remains her life personality.

1:34.8

It's really tough to change what happens after the first five years.

1:39.6

And in some ways, it's impossible.

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