[bernardino]

> as long as you accept that the main purpose of reading a story aloud is to relax and enjoy the story together rather than to develop skills

American culture puts so much stress on young kids these days. While I’m still an undergraduate, I see my sister who is about to graduate high school make dark jokes about going to college and her life but it seems there is some truth there.

If or when I become a parent, I’m going to teach inner cultivation rather than productivity, etc. I.e. “Do whatever you please, pal. I got your back.”

It’s just the whole social order seems very toxic and I don’t want that for young kids growing up. I argue that it’s the way we are raised and taught that we become so anxious, etc. We worry that we if we aren’t accumulating skills for the workforce or whatever, we are wasting our time. No, man. Play video games for the sake of playing video games. When did we become so anxious about doing the latter?

[scalesolved]

I like the way you think! I myself have fallen into this trap before, playing video games to relax whilst trying to read technical articles to improve my skills.

I didn't realise the danger of it until someone pointed out the waste, if you're going to relax then just relax!

As a recent father I'm going to teach my daughter financial planning and responsibility so she can provide for herself but otherwise that she can take her life in any which direction and that money is the not the answer.