[lit-ideas] Re: Conscious after the fact?

This is a legitimate question.  The test is not the issue, the questions are 
not the issue, and there would be no grade except to pass or fail.  The point 
is to teach people when to respond, how to respond, how to communicate, how to 
guide and correct without hitting or shaming (otherwise known as discipline) 
and on and on.  For example, to explain that the terrible 2's are a time when 
the child is beginning to explore his world and his sense of self while still 
connected to mom.  He's not just being a recalcitrant little monster.  And so 
on and so on.  Also to inculcate that if there isn't both a father and mother 
(and a huge percentage of the time there isn't) then don't even think about 
it.  Also to inculcate that children are needy creatures who CANNOT meet an 
adult's needs for friendship or whatever.  
 
There are right now parenting classes that people can take and are often 
mandated to take by child protective agencies.  It might be of academic 
interest if someone on the list were to participate in such a class just to see 
how it's done.  The licensing process actually could start in high school, for 
both boys and girls.  In fact, if it did start in high school, people would 
begin to understand that having children is a serious endeavor, and teenage 
pregnancy would go down.  Right now there's a giggle giggle tee hee, stars in 
the eyes quality, whether glazed over or just unrealistic, to doing something 
as serious as creating a human being.   
 
 


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Conscious after the fact?
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 3:28 AM


Andy wrote: 





  This is why I harp on parent training, indeed licensing.  
I've been thinking about this today: What would a "license" exam look like for 
parenting?  

Let's say you had to identify 2 questions that such a test MUST have: What 
would those two questions be? 

(And, of course, what would the answers have to be?)

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