Rather than mollycoddling helicopter-parenting your children to oaf-rock, let them trick-or-treat without adult supervision and eat uninspected candy. · 3:50am Oct 28th, 2018
If you read the news, you read stories about oaf-rocked adults (ruined by being mollycoddled as children). I shall give the example of Evergreen State:
Well-meaning students came up with the idea of protesting discrimination by excluding white people from Campus for a day. Professor Bret Samuel Weinstein, an American biologist and evolutionary theorist, pointed out that 2 wrongs do not make a right. Rather than saying, "You are right. We did not think this through. We shall have to go back to the drawing board.", they responded, "¡He hates our idea! ¡Wa! ¡Wa! ¡Wa!". They threw a temper-tantrum. Young adults throwing a temper-tantrum rapidly turned into a riot. These students acted psychologically less than half their chronological age. They acted as though they were a decade younger than their age. This is what mollycoddling and helicopter-parenting does to the adults children become.
Before I continue, I notice that conservative children do not become oaf-rocked. This is strange since their parents teach them fairy tales about talking snakes as fact. One would expect these children to be oaf-rocked, but they are not. The difference is that conservatives corporally punish their children. 1 way to prevent children from becoming oaf-ricked adults is to helicopter and mollycoddle them, but beat them blood too. I have a better suggestion:
¡Stop helicoptering and mollycoddling your children!
Soon in many countries, will be the best opportunity to free-range children all year:
Halloween approaches, despite what the fun-killers would have one believe, no stranger has abducted a child on Halloween in over 40 years and no stranger has ever poisoned a child using Halloween-Candy. Here is an idea:
¿What is more exhilarating for a child of only single-digit age than to run around town, after dark, with no adult, beg for candy from strangers, and eat the candy without and inspection?
his Halloween, kick your kids out after dark and tell them to have fun in the dark without adult supervision. The children will remember this as an highpoint of their childhood and they will not grow up to be oaf-rocked.
¿Do any of you have any comments or questions?
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I forgot to mention that it is a good idea for kids for kids 5-10 years old to for groups of 5-10 kids when they trick-or-treat.
Update of 2018-11-01:
Once again, for 2018, strangers poisoned no children (never happened) and abducted no children (has not happened since 1973). We had 1 report of amphetamine-poisoning, but it is likely that the child got into the stash of amphetamine using parents (this is similar to a case of an uncle blaming the death a a child on poisoned candy when the child got into his heroine a few years back). As a skeptic, I fight this Halloween-Hysteria, plus, it leads to oaf-rocked adults who cannot function as adults.
I live in a big city and it always makes me smile when I see children roam around free. I always think that the parents are probably not far, but imagining that parents sit in a café somewhere while their children explore the rest of the vicinity or that they are even at home while their children go shopping or to a playground alone gives me joy. But it also doesn't happen often I see that, so it's a rare joy to have.
I come from a country that's very authoritarian to children and where children are rather heavily restricted by their parents. America, with its Trick-or-Treat tradition, is a paradise for children compared to my country.
Child protective services are also very aggressive here. I remember a case from a couple years ago where a 10 year old girl wanted to sleep outside in a tent in the yard of an apartment building, right under the balcony of the apartment where her and her mother lived in. Her mother allowed the girl to do that. Neighbors then reported the mother, child protective services came, insinuated that the mother can't safely take care of her child and took the girl away.
I just rolled my eyes when I saw that the neighbors and the child protective services really thought that camping under the balcony of her and her mom's apartment was dangerous for the girl.
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But child-protective services were in the right:
If the building would collapse, the balcony would crush the child. She could be much safer in the building if the building would collapse.
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Oh and then I should explain:
When I said "under" the balcony, I wasn't meaning it literally. It was more before the balcony, on the grass of the yard, but "under" it too, because they didn't live on the ground floor. But who knows, debris can fly far and one of those pieces of debris from the collapsing house might just decide to strategically fly in a way that it crushes the girl's head.