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"Junior, the most important thing you need to know about how the world works is..."

ControlDenied said:

who the fuck would say ANY of this shit to a little kid?!?

what in christ!

why dont you just launch him from a catapult directly into the grave
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I have, IN PRACTICE said MANY of these things to 4- and 5- and 6- year olds, and in every single case, they learned valuable lessons WAY before their peers did, and turned out quite well because of/despite my advice (and becuase/of/despite similar advice dispensed to them by the other members of their family.

Why the fuck do you think the Jews, who are less than 1 percent of the world's population, are acknowledged as running many important parts of the world?

Why do you think that we shit money in our sleep, and contribute more to the media and to the arts than we have any business doing?

It's because we stress EDUCATION from a very very early age.

It's got almost NOTHING to do with money.

It's got to do with Jewish parents emphasizing learning about life to their children from a very young age, engaging their monds, and stressing education of all sorts.

Just.

My.

Extentsive.

Experience.
 
As a dude who's known a lot of Jews and a lot of Chinese in his day, I've learned that for any kid, education is really 'it'. They've got education and discipline, they'll do just fine. Nothing saddens me more than seeing a parent who doesn't value their kid's education at all, and isn't shy about saying so. They have no idea how badly they're hurting him, especially as the world only grows more populated and more competitive.
 
well im jewish too..so ill agree with your assertion that jews are effectively superior to non-jews...in most ways at least... but i have yet to begin excreting cash in my sleep, much to my dismay. rarely if anything comes out without extreme effort, and usually a liquidy type of slime, and only when im very ill.

i think kids should be told to run around in circles in the yard. if you live in the inner city, then the street. if the kids are sick or injured, then in the living room. if you live in a very small apt, then on the roof. this world is made of circles.i think humans should recreate that from a young age.

"As a dude who's known a lot of Jews and a lot of Chinese in his day"
....let me guess...you live in JewieChinaland?
 
Wow... great question.

I think that every piece of philosophical wisdom that has ever been uttered can ultimately be boiled down to something as simple as, "Embrace life." Not your own life, not even the life of your own species - but all life.

To most rational adults, this concept is probably extremely obvious. Yet, I find that keeping it at the forefront of my conscious mind as much as possible keeps me from thinking in a selfish way - it diminishes the ego, you might even be able to say.

So, to answer the original question, I suppose this would be my parental advice. Although the advice to "question everything" is less abstract, and a tempting answer indeed...
 
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ControlDenied said:
who the fuck would say ANY of this shit to a little kid?!? what in christ! why dont you just launch him from a catapult directly into the grave
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Some of these tidbits would be inappropriate for a 5-year-old, but many of them would be greatly appropriate, I think. You can expose young kids to complex ideas if done the right way. To begin teaching kids lessons at as young an age as possible is what's best for the child. It will help them to develop and become mature and thoughtful at a younger age.
 
It depends on the child, but you can usually tell when they're ready for complex reasoning. (Hint: It's right about the time they start asking "why?" constantly.)
 
The history books don't give a shit on how much you know, but on the power of the few things that you do.
 
I suppose, but the way I was raised, and will probably raise my children, is that all those philosophies are utlmiately mind games and living life freely and naturally is a lot better. kind of more "primitive" maybe... of coure having philosophical conversations between child and parent is awesome... but to impose it on them at 5 is a bit, well funny, kind of strangely formal
 
the question is hypothetical theory anyway. i mean, you raise a kid and you'll be teaching them countless things, not just one and they will all naturally come about.

this exercise is about focusing on what one would most like to teach their offspring to make them more than they (the parent) were. how this is done is another thing entirely. I wouldn't read these replies as verbatim.
 
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."

- Tony Montana
 
yeh thats true. i guess i like to take things too seriously :) probably why i wouldnt want to give my kids too much of my advice lol...
 
Xorkoth said:
Outputting positive energy will attract positive energy, and likewise negativity will attract negativity. I found that once I started living my life daily attempting nothing but positive actions and feelings, everything startedd to fall into place and I became very happy in general, and I could always feel good about myself.
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Excellent.
 
"Life isn't always fair, remember that"

Or possibly that line George's father told him in Blow.. can't really remember it now.
 
"Be excellent to each other!"

No one line could apply to and answer everything, but this secular, commercial, late-80s comedy sums it up so fucking well. If you treated people as they treated you, you could easily get caught up in some endless circles of spite. Don't worry about that shit. Revenge might be fair, but it wouldn't be Excellent.

There's a reason the only poster in my room is for "Bill and Ted." It's so much easier for me to accept a suggestion if it's given by a peer and not demanded that it's sacred.
 
"Never be content with what you already know; there's always more than one side to a story."
 
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