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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.

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