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by dragonwriter
2982 days ago
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> If you read stories with the intention of fostering skill development you will neither inculcate skills nor get the most out of those stories. [citation needed] I suspect this only even approaches reality if by “intention” you mean “clumsily projected attitude”. > The idea that there exist professional parents who explictly know what they are doing (with footnotes and sources) is a major conceit in our present culture. The idea that parenting isn't a field which can be, and is, productively studied and that there aren't people who can provide useful guidance based on greater knowledge of that study and skill at observing and applying that knowledge is, itself, a major conceit in our present culture. |
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Nah, just intention. For example, teaching children arithmetic with great moral seriousness, as we do, doesn't produce great arithmeticians. It merely encourages people to become math teachers.
>The idea that parenting isn't a field which can be, and is, productively studied
Trouble is that most of the knowledge is inexplicit and that family life is private. So trying to uncover and understand what's really going on is hard. If you try to study families empirically then you're (a) interfering with their normal activities, and (b) avoiding the fact that morality is independent of outcome. However, from the article, 'coach' suggests people are already giving advice. They think they know the answers.