Parental Guidance

Do you have a publication or post on how you raised your children and how you believe others should raise their children MM?

I am interested to hear it, since I have not yet figured out how I would want my own children to be institutionalized (



There is no need for a book on how to educate your children yourself. That knowledge is innate. All you have to do is learn how to access that buried information. My particular child education argument is that our school system, which concentrates 90% of the time on our analytical potentials and almost none on our intuitive capabilities, has systematically blocked us from accessing our full creative potential.

My entire drift on this thread is an attempt to show how vitally important the Stone Age and the Bronze Age were in the development of human intelligence. Our ignorance of the important ethical and practical training that took place in both of those preliterate eras of human development is chronically affecting modern education methods. We are systematically indoctrinating our kids by stuffing their heads with technical with data, most of it unusable - like robots - and in that process we are screening them off from their natural creative originality. Those who can memorize and recall most of the data are deemed the most intelligent. If you dropped the average Phd off in the bush, they would have less survival smarts than a baboon. So what are we trying to achieve in our education system? Turn our specie into walking computers, ready to nuke their neighjbors?

A start date of 2.5 million years and an average generation span of 25 years allows us to all realize just how much time was invested in those two formative Ages. 100,000 generations in all. Scripture only became necessary for human development 240 generations ago - 99,760 generations after we first became conscious of ourselves.

During that period we learned how to share and appreciate family values. By setting traps, learning the torque of a snare. making poisons, shooting and learning the arc of arrows and the tension of the bowstring, throwing and learning the force of spears, making clothes, cooking food, learning natural herbal remedies -- I can go on and on .. we laid the foundations of our basic engineering and math capabilities - our doctoring skills - our intuitive knowledge of nature and how best to domesticate her.

Most importantly we remained naively intimate about the Natural law of non-trespass across territorial boundaries and took that intuitive relationship to a sophisticated level far higher than all other animals. Our superior intelligence inquired into the lessons of pain, into the luck of the hunt, into fortune and misfortune. In this way we became intimate with the higher Laws of Cause and Effect. We learned to step very carefully and treat each other respectfully and we taught our children the same. In this way children became self-policed and attentive at a very early age.

The modern parent needs to access all this ancient memory. The child does not have to be drilled inside a classroom. The scientific engineering genius is already there. Our job as parents is a process of caring, encouraging and reminding - of creating the best conditions for our child to access its own latent self-policed genius. We do not need a teaching degree to that. We just need to be caring parents.