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To: abuelita who wrote (89196)	12/18/2013 8:44:11 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 104216

As you say it has a lot to do with whom raised whom. You can see "mom" personalities in most girls if you look hard enough, right down to the laugh. Kids are actually pretty easy to raise in my opinion if you just love them, respect them and guide them. Gently. To be brutally honest, my liberal friends kids, all in all, turned out to be more successful in life than my conservative friends. My liberal friends kids sure went to college in greater numbers. I know my ex's (two different moms) and I had to fight convention though to raise our kids the way we did. E.g. People were constantly trying to get us to discipline them and we simply refused. I think the reason my liberal friends turned out more successful was for several fundamental reasons: 1) Liberal parents more often have continuing substantive conversations with their children. And of course I think the liberal philosophy is superior to the conservative philosophy. They teach their children to think. You can really see this in full bloom in the liberal end of the Jewish culture. Liberal Jews are all thinkers. 2) Children's egos are very fragile and must be handled like rare China. Sure they can survive harsh treatment, but it injures them inside. We not only never spanked the kids, I made sure they were never even afraid of me. Ever, not for a moment. 3) Too many rules and over protection stunts kids and dogma is poison. It is like inserting a virus into a new computer. And it is there forever jamming up clear thinking; and I think happiness.