Also, it reminds me of some of our friends with my son. Teaching t'kiddo new words ("hedonistic" was his godfather's favorite, and one of the first multisyllabic words he picked up) at a year and a half old, or Uncle H. demonstrating how locks and lockpicks work when t'kiddo was five. Admittedly, I was the one to teach him how to drill out screws and some of the uses for that skill, but... I was there to supervise?
The struggle to keep ethics ahead of skills has been a major parenting challenge.
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Also, it reminds me of some of our friends with my son. Teaching t'kiddo new words ("hedonistic" was his godfather's favorite, and one of the first multisyllabic words he picked up) at a year and a half old, or Uncle H. demonstrating how locks and lockpicks work when t'kiddo was five. Admittedly, I was the one to teach him how to drill out screws and some of the uses for that skill, but... I was there to supervise?
The struggle to keep ethics ahead of skills has been a major parenting challenge.