It's expensive... Also trying to unbrainwash them from the ideological BS they will be indoctrinatiled into at school seems like a downer. I'll probably end up in prison for protecting my kid... It's all just risky and time consuming.
Discussion
Bitcoin fixes this
Yeah... If I become a millionaire this cycle I'll consider it and home school them until high school by which time they should be old enough to fight the indoctrination themselves with less input from me.
This leads to the other reason women might not be having kids... I was told all my life that I could do whatever I wanted and having kids was portrayed as not what women want. I'm 36 and only just beginning to understand and hate that lie. But I'm also too far screwed by fiat systems and I really have found big dreams that I want to try to achieve. I'll probably just keep chasing them.
Its the expense, and the cult of self-indulgence and high-time-preference.
My kids have a healthy cynicism, and the elder a biting wit. People overestimate the power of propaganda over those listeners who also touch grass and talk to real humans. And the more openly censorship is wielded, the less sincere feedback the propagandists get that could refine their messaging.
You'll be a great mother, nostr:npub16llpfttm85ltrqc5ggyu5snfq38x6vwhanyrhrddpn43ylt3wdxqa99rf5 The ones who have doubts usually are, its the overconfident we should worry about...
Thanks for the vote of confidence! 🤗I have more than healthy levels of cynicism, but I know how my parents instilled it and I don't think I could do the same to my own kids. That's another part of my problem, no real good role models. I wouldn't know how to support a child's emotional, social, educational and spiritual development and I'm aware that I'm probably too selfish to do it properly.
Once mine hit about 8 they started asking questions, and were very excited to receive answers that weren't the droning Woke catechism they receive at school. Its easier than it looks. And then there are friends, family and possibly church mentors.
I also try to teach them where they can pirate long-form books and journal articles to find evidence-based but unfashionable expert opinions on their own. I've been less successful in that, they prefer asking peers or Youtube :
( But maybe once they're teenagers...? Or maybe no one today has the pre-internet boredom levels required to read?)
"Dad what happened on 9/11?"
Have you considered podcasts by experts? For some reason I have a preference for that over reading these days. Oh maybe because now that I'm at uni I'm always reading and it's not always fun.
I'm glad your kids question everything and enjoy non-woke answers. I'm glad someone is out there raising a generation of thinkers.
That's the thing, the fact you can have these thoughts prove you would be a good mother lol. Your able to have empathy for your child.