Re: Muslim lesbian couple from Pakistan defies life threats, becomes first to get mar
Peace S02
Awareness of something harmful should not be made proactively. If they children find out and ask about it then there is the obligation to educate them about it.
You see I made the fault of proactively telling my kids that solvents are harmful and showed them a child suffering from solvent-sniffing addiction. I then saw the middle child trying to smell an aerosol and I became very angry with him, but then I realised that had I not told him about the act then he would not have known what to do.
Part of educating ones child properly is to know when to be reactive with information and when to be proactive with it. Making people too familiar with a matter is harmful … I don’t go out of my way to tell children how babies come, but eventually they make the intellectual jump and that is when you usher in ideas for keeping things in context for them.
Giving children choice in matters of knowledge is absurd, because we don’t give our children the same CHOICE in matters of possessions and actions do we? We don’t say “son it is your choice to stay at home after dark, but if you go out remember it can be dangerous” - no … we say “don’t go outside it’s dark” … we give them a choice about going out when they are much older.
If you are doing as you say about giving children options then I’m afraid you are not making ethical minds at all.