Konkvistador comments on Rational Parenting? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 June 2011 05:12:16PM *  8 points [-]

Raising them to share "rationalist thought" seems hard. Nearly everything I can think of seems to have a real risk of ending up being either password guessing or raising an overly enthusiastic contrarian.

The single most important lesson of rationality that I think a child can grasp intuitively through experience seems to be "beliefs should pay rent". But constructing lessons, engineering situations, setting an appropriate example and most importantly finding a peer network to reinforce this, appears to be... a difficult undertaking.