I’ve begun the task of educating my kid about the foundational lies that our society is constructed upon. It certainly is a much more daunting task than I imagined. The propaganda is ubiquitous. I didn’t wake up until I was well into my 30s. I refuse to let him sleepwalk through life.
I did the same with my child. I found that it was a non-stop effort to help your child to see through the lies, but more importantly, to assist them in seeing through the "unstated assumptions," or "subtexts," the ones that are not overt, but operate covertly, underlying the story, to push forward the preferred worldview.
Because the world, including the family, is being dismembered, by having no common, intellectual activities, which is a break from how it was in the past, where we had such intimacies as reading aloud, telling stories, listening to the radio, playing games, and watching TV, together. Today's parents have fewer opportunities for intervention.
All of the things you are not doing together are filling them with the dominant narrative. I hope you are finding more and more ways to ensure you have frequent opportunities to intervene.
My father taught me basic logic and philosophy as soon as I started school. He encouraged me to question authority. It made school "interesting" sometimes, but I had my parents support.
FWIW, I started with this long before school. I would urge all parents to start with bedtime stories, and reading together time at a very early age, by asking questions of your child about what is really going on. "The Three Little Pigs," are quite good at getting at the dominant, colonial mindset that says making your house out of ready to hand, and natural material is bad. Bricks and mortar, good! And it also pushes the view that all wild animals are out to get you.
I raised my daughter to be a good rebel and failed miserably. She’s highly intelligent, has a good job, etc, but rather than watching geopolitics online, she prefers watching videos of puppies. She thinks I’m over-the-top.
Luckily I sense the rebel instinct in my 13-year -old granddaughter and strongly encourage her to embrace it.
I’ve begun the task of educating my kid about the foundational lies that our society is constructed upon. It certainly is a much more daunting task than I imagined. The propaganda is ubiquitous. I didn’t wake up until I was well into my 30s. I refuse to let him sleepwalk through life.
I did the same with my child. I found that it was a non-stop effort to help your child to see through the lies, but more importantly, to assist them in seeing through the "unstated assumptions," or "subtexts," the ones that are not overt, but operate covertly, underlying the story, to push forward the preferred worldview.
Because the world, including the family, is being dismembered, by having no common, intellectual activities, which is a break from how it was in the past, where we had such intimacies as reading aloud, telling stories, listening to the radio, playing games, and watching TV, together. Today's parents have fewer opportunities for intervention.
All of the things you are not doing together are filling them with the dominant narrative. I hope you are finding more and more ways to ensure you have frequent opportunities to intervene.
My father taught me basic logic and philosophy as soon as I started school. He encouraged me to question authority. It made school "interesting" sometimes, but I had my parents support.
FWIW, I started with this long before school. I would urge all parents to start with bedtime stories, and reading together time at a very early age, by asking questions of your child about what is really going on. "The Three Little Pigs," are quite good at getting at the dominant, colonial mindset that says making your house out of ready to hand, and natural material is bad. Bricks and mortar, good! And it also pushes the view that all wild animals are out to get you.
Hi David
I raised my daughter to be a good rebel and failed miserably. She’s highly intelligent, has a good job, etc, but rather than watching geopolitics online, she prefers watching videos of puppies. She thinks I’m over-the-top.
Luckily I sense the rebel instinct in my 13-year -old granddaughter and strongly encourage her to embrace it.