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Date: October 24th, 2018 8:31 PM Author: Dun wild telephone bbw
Expose him to many, many things and let him develop his own preferences, then teach him a path to excellence in those things and the overarching principle of self-accountability and maximum effort in all things regardless of circumstances.
As he gets older, teach him the difference between the man and the woman, the owner and the employee, the gladiator and the critic, the leader and the follower.
Christian ethics based upon the golden rule, sermon on the mount (create the basis of servant leadership), beatitudes, 10 commandments.
Appreciation for the moment.
Teach him about money and financial principles early and build a mind that understands entrepreneurship.
Allow him to watch my relationship with my wife as the basis for how to treat others.
Let him choose his path from there. If I have succeeded in teaching those things and encouraging my son to live a thoughtful and intentional life, there is no more I could do as a parent.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37088752) |
Date: October 24th, 2018 6:51 PM Author: thirsty pink party of the first part voyeur
Apparently "authoritative parenting" (not "authoritarian parenting") - high expectations but a lot of nurturing and explanation and kid has input.
We're also trying to expose her to a lot. Letting her pick what she likes to do and encouraging her to pursue those things. My parents (father) was authoritarian and I've told myself for 25 years that I would never be like that with my own kids.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37088087) |
Date: October 24th, 2018 9:17 PM Author: Vengeful sickened parlour pervert
The gospel of JESUS CHRIST is the most important thing in your life.
Respect your mother or face the wrath of G_d.
You will play a sport at least three seasons of the year. At least two of them will be team sports.
Speak your mind.
Ignore morons. You'll know them when you see them (you'll see a lot of them).
Protect your sister at all costs, including physical harm to yourself.
Don't let anybody punk you, ever.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37089013) |
Date: October 24th, 2018 9:41 PM Author: ruby splenetic keepsake machete
Consistency. They need to know that you mean what you say, and no amount of whining is going to get you to drop it out of convenience. Say things that you care about in a manner that conveys importance. Don't say "hey remember not to draw on the walls" in passing and then fail to follow up on whether they actually stopped doing it.
Let them know that your standards (your family's standards) might not be the same as standards applied to others. I think it's perfectly fine/healthy for them to see other kids acting up and being little shits and just wonder "what the fuck is that kid doing?"
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37089217) |
Date: October 24th, 2018 9:51 PM Author: Razzle theatre
do so much fucking better than mine
- kid will not miss opportunities they've earned access to
- kid will not question if they are loved or worthy of love
- kid will have clear expectations set for them - not many, but a few important ones
- kid will experience consistent rules and developmentally appropriate household responsibilities commensurate with age
- kid will get to be a kid
- kid will not ever feel like it has to take care of me until I'm old and grey and even then I'll have my shit so organized it won't be too involved
- kid will not live in a place where TV is king
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37089302) |
Date: October 25th, 2018 7:59 AM Author: bisexual business firm shitlib
1. Be involved in the kid's life.
2. Patiently answer every single question they ask.
3. Expose them to a lot of different activities.
4. Let them decide which activities to gravitate to.
5. Give them the means to pursue those activities. Do not push them past the point of not enjoying the activity. But also be firm in not allowing them to quit when they face adversity or briefly lose interest.
6. Teach them to respect all people. You don't have to like everyone and you don't have to be friends with everyone, but you have to respect everyone.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37090984) |
Date: October 25th, 2018 8:18 AM Author: Olive mischievous gaming laptop hall
No need for a philosphy. It's pretty obvious that you have to set rules and enforce them and don't reward whining.
Other than that, I just stress the importance of working hard and praise them when they do. I try to tell them all the traditional morals (Ten Commandments, boy who cried wolf, etc.)
Perhaps most importantly limit TV to 2 movies a week. No ipads.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091039) |
Date: October 25th, 2018 9:46 AM Author: pungent fuchsia parlor volcanic crater
chums, let me tell you something:
Most people are shitty parents. Most people out and about are doing all sorts of messed up scarring crap, just not loving enough and openly, just not listening, not encouraging, using force when they need understanding, through neglect and indifference occluding all the passageways that need to stay open for the child to be receptive to needed advice later on.
If you had to take an extensive battery of tests and meetings w social workers and such to get a license to procreate, and the bar were set at a level sure to raise healthy, well-rounded kids who grow up to be gentlemen, most current kid havers would fail. Nearly half of the stuff ITT right now is dead wrong, like DEAD WRONG. Think about this.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091361) |
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Date: October 25th, 2018 10:37 AM Author: pungent fuchsia parlor volcanic crater
okay --look, just read up on authoritative parenting techniques. Then go from there.
remember kids get fucked up If you downplay their own feelings--remember they are little scientists in every aspect of their behavior--when we say "testing boundaries" they are literally being scientific in figuring out what works.
Also practice reflective listening w them rather than horning in on what they SHOULD do. If you do that all the time when they are little they will come to you for help w the big problems too later on.
Read brain books when they are babies. Talk to them all the time--non stop prattling when they are even tiny little babies. Just talk about what is around them--like some sort of idiot. "see the big flower its green, green and white and there's a big car--the doors make a noise when they close"--kids have to hear a bunch of words by the time they are 4 in order to maximize brain growth. Talk talk talk. every minute you are with them you shoud be talking. Start reading when they are tiny little babies. Do the same thing over and over--same books--as a man, speak in a soothing deep voice--you want them to feel safe. They need to FEEL SAFE to explore shit. No screen time AT ALL the first couple years.
If you have a tiny little baby now like uh incelot, and you don't know what to do w him, just talk all the time talk talk talk about any kind of nonsense. tlak about whats around you what you see whats what--play w shapes and blocks and just jabber like a retard. it's all good for them.
Google reflective listening and google authoritative parenting. I know retards on here wont bother to investigate anything ive just said but look into those items.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091632)
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Date: October 25th, 2018 10:51 AM Author: pungent fuchsia parlor volcanic crater
teach emotional regulation early on too.
"Smell the rose, blow out the candle 5 times when you are so mad you can't stand it!"
LEt them have their own downtime after some intense activity. They like it and learn to regulate their feelings by doing so.
Make sure they are outside running around a bit every single day you can. nowadays you basically have to do PLAYDATES--kids don't bicycle to other kids houses any more and most young parents are too retarded to realize that they are externalizing daycare costs by letting their kid go to a SAHM house every single damn day--so these things have to be organized a bit by the parents. And most parents are in fact assholes who rarely reciprocate but it doesn't matter--the focus is on socializing YOUR kid even though other young parents will gladly drop their kid off at your house but wont ever offer to reciprocate.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091698) |
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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:06 AM Author: pungent fuchsia parlor volcanic crater
this isn't spaceporn --he doesn't poast here.
I agree w you--Spaceporn shouldn't smoke weed while his kid is in the house, even if its in a different part of the house.
Also, it seems as though SP's kid is doing great on all fronts. he's a bit babyish still but that's because his mom babies him when SP's not around--but SP breaks that stuff up by spending his entire Saturday out and about w him
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091763) |
Date: October 25th, 2018 10:36 AM Author: talented water buffalo
My first priority is instilling in my children an indelible confidence in their immediate family while also appreciating that we are all fallible.
Confidence in themselves to be able to do almost anything they set their minds to with sufficient preparation and commitment.
I try to foster true empathy in them without self-defeating deference to other's SPS ideas. I have had good success using their pet dog and their care for the dog to achieve this (e.g., how do you think the dog feels when he asks to be let out so he can do what he knows we want him to do, but you ignore him?). I also point out that just because they are empathizing with the dog, they shouldn't assume licking their own ass is a good idea.
We make sure they get up no later than a predetermined time every morning, with no exceptions, and immediately do a chore they don't necessarily want to do, such as making their bed, picking up toys, etc.
To sum it up, I am trying to foster their understanding that their and their family's well-being is paramount and their achieving this desired well-being takes real, often monotonous, effort on their part, but not being an asshole to others while pursuing their own self interest.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37091623)
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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:08 PM Author: indigo native
don't currently have kids but do want them someday
I feel like I need to develop an overall "philosophy" before then. As of now, I only really have some specific planned tactics such as:
- read to them every night from the day they're born. Obviously it's true that IQ is genetic, but being an early and avid reader is a yuuuuuge leg up in the long run over kids whose parents just hand them an iPad.
- on that note, very limited tech use until their teens. No smartphone until maybe 11-12.
- frank discussion of sex at an appropriate age, striking a balance between not shaming the act but giving healthy warnings/advice
- hard curfew until HS. not sure what time, something reasonable
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37093140) |
Date: October 25th, 2018 7:22 PM Author: cyan stead
1. Never discipline in anger. There's no single thing I can think of that caused more resentment or contempt towards my parents from me and my siblings than when one was out of control and unable to be reasoned with.
2. Always discipline consistently, and don't tolerate disrespect. Inconsistency breeds contempt. Compel respect for authority figures, and the need for order.
3. Always be willing and able to explain what is expected of them and the reasons for it. When challenged, draw a distinction between disrespect and legitimate questions.
4. Always treat them as much like adults as possible; while there are some things that they can't understand the complexities of until they're older, most things can be simplified to a level that they can understand, even from a very young age.
5. Don't tolerate cowardice. Explain to them that while fear is normal, it's also something that should be overcome. (E.g. If they're afraid of heights, expose them to heights from a young age and push them to get over it.) Similarly, teach them to get over pain and minor injury quickly by letting them play outside and not babying them when they get cuts and scrapes.
6. Teach them to read and to do math as soon as possible. I was reading by two, thanks wholly to my mother's diligence in teaching me as soon as I knew my alphabet. I regard this as the best thing my parents ever did for me. This teaches them to love books, makes learning easier, and opens up an entire world to them much sooner. It really allows them to begin self-development.
7. Regularly play and hang out with them, from birth through adulthood. Every single father-child relationship I have ever seen that I consider successful has ended with a close friendship, particularly during middle/high school. This is, by far, the most effective way to guide children during adolescence; punishments and rewards don't work, but genuine mutual affection allows you to influence their decisions more than anything else will.
8. Teach them to work hard at things. This is a lesson I never learned; virtually everything came very easily for me and I learned to coast, which made learning to work hard difficult when it became necessary. There is little that is more fulfilling than hard work rewarded by accomplishment, and the sooner they learn that, the happier and better their lives will be.
9. Mandate lots of physical activity. Sports, lifting, and running will all be mandatory for both boys and girls. This is valuable for teaching several things, and also teaches them to enjoy exercise, which is an excellent habit.
10. Teach them to follow Christianity. Teach them the reasoning behind an intelligent faith - make them read Aquinas, MacIntyre, Plantinga, & co. in high school, and push them to reason through theology on their own.
11. Provide as many opportunities as possible for them to pursue their interests - music lessons, sports, academic competitions, etc. will all be a priority.
12. Model a strong marriage for them; the primary shaping influence of what is "normal" in a home and in a marriage is the parental example. During high school and college, have frank discussions with them about relationships and marriage.
13. No video games. Give a frank explanation of the neurological problems that video games create. Similarly, no internet until they need it for school, and minimal TV exposure.
14. Teach them to value family.
i think that's most of it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37095367) |
Date: October 29th, 2018 7:58 PM Author: Puce Effete Stag Film
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one’s neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
Usually we do just the opposite; we rush to teach them a respect for the little virtues, on which we build our whole system of education. In doing this we are choosing the easiest way, because the little virtues do not involve any actual dangers; indeed they provide shelter from Fortune’s blows. We do not bother to teach the great virtues, though we love them and want our children to have them. But we nourish the hope that they will spontaneously appear in their consciousness someday in the future. We think of them as being part of our instinctive nature, while the others, the little virtues, seem to be the result of reflection and calculation and so we think that they absolutely must be taught. . . .
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37121054) |
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Date: October 29th, 2018 7:59 PM Author: Puce Effete Stag Film
We usually give a quite unwarranted importance to our children’s scholastic performance. And this is nothing but a respect for the little virtue “success.” It should be enough for us that they do not lag too far behind the others, that they do not fail their exams. But we are not content with this; we want success from them; we want them to satisfy our pride.
It is not true that they have a duty to do well at school for our sake and to give the best of their skills to studying. Once we have started them in their lessons, their duty is simply to go forward. If they wish to spend the best of their skills on things outside school — collecting Coleoptera [beetles] or learning Turkish — that is their business and we have no right to reproach them, or to show that our pride has been hurt or that we feel dissatisfied with them. If at the moment the best of their skills do not seem to be applied to anything, then we do not have the right to shout at them very much in that case either; who knows, perhaps what seems laziness to us is really a kind of daydreaming and thoughtfulness that will bear fruit tomorrow. If it seems they are wasting the best of their energies and skills lying on the sofa reading ridiculous novels or charging around a football pitch, then again we cannot know whether this is really a waste of energy and skill or whether tomorrow this too will bear fruit in some way that we have not yet suspected. Because there are an infinite number of possibilities open to the spirit. But we, the parents, must not let ourselves be seized by a terror of failure.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37121061)
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Date: October 29th, 2018 8:00 PM Author: Puce Effete Stag Film
What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken. This love can take different forms, and sometimes a listless, solitary, bashful child is not lacking in a love of life. He is not overwhelmed by a fear of life; he is simply in a state of expectancy, intent on preparing himself for his vocation. And what is a human being’s vocation but the highest expression of his love of life? And so we must wait, next to him, while his vocation awakens and takes shape.
A vocation, an ardent and exclusive passion for something in which there is no prospect of money, the consciousness of being able to do something better than others, and being able to love this thing more than anything else — this is the only, the unique way in which a . . . child can completely escape being conditioned by money, so that he is free of its claims; so that he . . . will not even be conscious of what clothes he is wearing, or of the clothes around him, and tomorrow he will be equal to any privation because the one hunger and thirst within him will be his own passion which will have devoured everything futile and provisional and divested him of every habit learned in childhood, and which alone will rule his spirit. A vocation is man’s one true wealth and salvation.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37121065) |
Date: October 29th, 2018 8:05 PM Author: Puce Effete Stag Film
sexual conquest/social hypergamy
loyalty to family
skepticism towards The System
cui bono?/Ubi est mea? (edit: Cohen benefits, but the micks and the hicks are worse)
GNON / does it fly? physical reality >>>>> lefty ideology at school
don't start a bar fight, but never lose one
reading is fundamental
don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37121087) |
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Date: October 29th, 2018 11:54 PM Author: cyan stead
Heat is 180^180, but the moral to draw from it is that the titular quote shouldn't be construed to include family, just stuff/jobs. The whole point of the movie - which happens to be my favorite - is that McCauley and Chris both find emptiness without family, while Hanna keeps needing one to be happy - why else would he have three (going on four) divorces - but can't manage to wean himself from the job he loves more, in order to make the family work. EDIT: Hadn't read your above poast that this one is a joke before writing this.
1 is corrosive and will destroy 2, while also encouraging a hedonistic bent; a better revision would contextualize that within marriage. I think sexual dominance/stereotypically "alpha" behavior have their place within (and strengthen) a marriage.
The rest are excellent.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37122669) |
Date: November 9th, 2018 1:07 PM Author: primrose coffee pot
Have a bunch of kids with a woman I love.
Try to spend time with them both doing fun things but also teaching them about virtue, practical wisdom, and how to get on in the world.
Put hard limits on stuff like screen time and other addictive behaviors.
Encourage and allow them to take risks by toiling away and being generous -- but also letting them feel the sting of failure.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114268&forum_id=2#37197964) |
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