If you’re a parent, this is a good time to talk to your kids about self-awareness. It’s something you should practice even if you don’t think you have it yet.
According to a study by the University of Exeter, the more parent-child interactions you have, the more your children will self-aware. If youve got a kid you dont know, it might be time to have a chat with them about how they think. By the time your kid reaches high school and college, they can be pretty good at judging their own behavior.
In other words, if youve got kids who are self-aware, then you should be too. This means that you should teach your kids to be aware of their own actions. You might even want to get them to try doing them on their own. But you should also be aware that there are some people who are so aware that they can take over your kid and completely ignore you. This is what we call “paranoid parents,” and it usually ends badly.
When a parent tells a child not to do something, it usually isn’t because the child is too self-aware to understand why they are not doing it. It’s because those people are nuts. The paranoia is so extreme that they believe their own hype and think they can do anything and everything. It’s one thing to be paranoid about your kid doing drugs, it’s another to have a kid who is so paranoid that they convince themselves that anything they do is okay.
This is the point when we reach the parent’s point of “I know this has got to be wrong so I am going to tell you why I think its wrong.” And it turns out that we have all been in this position. If we had been told our child was going to be crazy we would have told them no. If we had told them that they were going to be a criminal we would have told them no.
What is the point of parents then? It would be better to let them be kids. If we had a kid who was going to be a criminal, then we would have the child locked away. If we had a kid who was going to be nuts we wouldn’t have them in the house. If we did have a kid who was going to be a criminal then we would have to get them out of the house. This is the same way it works for people in general.
While we can agree that there are certain behaviors that we would like to see our kids do, that does not mean that we want them to be criminals. The only thing worse than a child with criminal tendencies is a child with no criminal tendencies.
Even the best of us has some bad habits. We have a tendency to want to save our own skin and not get in trouble, and we are inclined to want to have fun even when we know it is not in the best interest for us to do so. It is this tendency to do the “right thing” at all times that allows us to be in control of our lives.
Just like the rest of us, kids will do some bad things in the name of having fun. And while we may not have the best intentions in wanting to do the best thing for our kids and ourselves, we still need to be cautious not to let our own negative impulses cloud our judgment.
But there are also times when it is better to not be in control. There are times when we need to take control of our lives. For instance, if we had been raised in a home where there was no curfew and where we were regularly exposed to alcohol, we might have started to believe that fun was something we should never, could not, and probably never do.
