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Comment by alexey-salmin

1 year ago

> It certainly gives you more ammunition as a teen to distrust and venture the things your parents also taught you or implied were dangerous.

So a good thing then?

Not really, they already pick that up organically from their peers at that age, I maintain that it makes you less credible as a parent/guide to them. If you help them with the easy questions, they're more liky to seek you out for the hard ones.

Also, long before that, you've cultivated a tradition of believing ridiculous nonsense for which there's no easy cure or gurantee it can be remedied before it ends up creating even bigger problems