Comments by "Tinerfeña" (@Islas_Canarias) on "Jordan B Peterson"
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I was a naturally curious child (still am at 53) and loved to read and learn without being told. I lived in the library as a teenager and would read four to five books a month. My favourite author as a child was Enid Blyton. As a teenager it was Stephen King. As an adult, it is a Canarian author, Alberto Vasquez-Figueroa, who writes stories in Spanish about fictitional Canarian characters set against actual historical settings. My favourites are the Cienfuegos saga and the Yaiza ones (I'm from the Canary Islands). But, at school I hated the rote learning, the memorisation for exams. When I think back, I only ever had three great teachers who inspired me. My English teacher (who let us call her by her first name), my Ancient History teacher and my German teacher. Their method of teaching was similar to the one given at this great school. My English teacher encouraged my love of reading and actually inspired me to want to write myself. I always looked forward to her comments when she would return my work. She made me feel I could do no wrong. My history teacher went on to go into politics. He was an enthusiastic teacher who taught to each individual student in his classes. In my German class I was always top of the class as I was already fluently bi-lingual in English and Spanish. He would love to have conversations with me in German and in my final year report he wrote that I "had a gift for languages and could major in Linguistics at university, if I so chose to pursue that field." I ended up moving overseas to Europe on my own at age 20 and spent 4 years there, working, getting a cultural experience and furthering my language skills. Today I homeschool our 15 year old son. I've learned a few valuable tips in this interview to add to our curriculum. Thank you.
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Boys need to know only 3 things when in a group:-
1) Who's in charge?
2) What are the rules?
3) Will they be enforced fairly?
I have taught our 15 year old son that masculinity is like having a sword. The real skill lies in not just having one but in the fact that others know thus but that he decides when and where he will use it. Another thing I have taught him is about power. Specifically, what having too much power is (abuse), how to spot it and how to conduct a proper argument (debate).
Another thing. I haven't had a female friend in my life since age 24 in 1994 after a bad experience with my so-called "best friend". The only women in my life during the past 29 years have been my mother, my sister and my brother's wife, my SIL. I have kept away from forming relationships with any women in my personal life and at work, back when I used to work (I've been a stay at home mother for 18 years now). Even women's behaviour at work has been appalling and I refused to associate with them both during work hours and outside. I would engage with them the minimum amount of time possible. I was very lucky that in my last paid job as an accountant, I was the sole female employee in a company of 25 employees (20 men on the factory floor, 4 in the office ages ranging from 24 to 70). I flourished in that position and all the men treated me like a queen and were very highly protective of me. When I resigned to have my son the men all fell to pieces!!
With regards to consciousness, if you were to ask yourself the question "Am I conscious?" You would notice a pause that would naturally arise, in order for you to answer the question, "Yes, I am." That pause, the space where you are free from any thought and in complete silence, is your consciousness. The only evidence you have of your own consciousness is the silent space with which it answers the question. I trained in yoga teaching, taught for 10 years and am studying with Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, a disciple of Swami Rama, the yogi who helped the medical and scientific fields study meditation in the 70's by allowing them to hook him up to biofeedback machines while he was in deep meditation. He demonstrated supranatural powers (siddhis) whilst in meditative trances that these experts were at a loss to prove, through scientific means, but they ultimately concluded where real. I myself have entered deep meditative states and have had experiences I am unable to describe with words. The closest I am able to come to describe turiya (the fourth and final level of conscious awareness) is that of a brilliance and a pulsating, humming, buzzing like sound that I can only identify as the sound OM
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@dal8963
You are very wrong. I homeschool our 15 year old son, although I didn't start until a year ago. I remember since he was 5 years old he would ask me to please homeschool him. Of course I wanted to, but I didn't at the time because I was unfamiliar with the application process and kept delaying, year after year, even though our son kept begging me relentlessly. While he was in the public education system, he had an absolutely miserable time. He kept to himself and the school medicalised him, thinking he had a behavioural problem. Ever since he was a little boy he was a sweet, kind and curious boy. I recall how when i would take him to the park he would snub the equipment and other children and be content with exploring the park itself, often going on "treasure hunting". He was never a social person. But he never hit, kicked, pinched, punched etc other children. I finally found the courage to tackle the homeschool paperwork last year and started homeschooling him. His mood drastically improved and his smile returned. He eventually confessed to me why he had hated school and had caused his teachers to label him as "difficult". It was because he found school absolutely dull, boring and irrelevant to his life. He wanted nothing to do with the place, his teachers, the help or with whatever they were teaching. He would flat out refuse to engage and would never communicate with any teacher who attempted to talk to him about his issues. He simply didnt trust teachers, who were trying to indoctrinate him with progressive ideologies. While he was in school he was a straight C-D student. Since he's been at home with me teaching him he has been scoring straight A's. Through all thus, i have come to realise that he is exactly like me. We are both independent, introverted, homebodies and perfectly comfortable and at home in our own company. Now, he is not anti-social at all. He has one close friend he met on day one of school, a girlfriend He's been with for a year who he met at school 2 weeks before we pulled him out, when they both skipped class and happened to stumbled across each other in the school playground and several intercontinental online gamer friends. He is highly smart and above average intelligence. I know this because I had him tested at a special children's clinic during his first year of school when I too, mistakenly, medicalised his natural tendencies. He is a very astute young man who, at the young age of 5, already had the wherewithal to know himself and know he would not thrive in the structured environment of a school. One of the regrets I have in life is that I didn't homeschool him for day one and that I contributed to his misery by both not listening to his cries and listening to so called "experts" who warned me NOT to homeschool him, like his paediatrician, for example. I have ALWAYS trusted my instincts and followed my intuition but in this instance I failed, both myself and our son. So, I reject your argument that homeschooling is detrimental to the "socialisation" of children. Our son gets plenty of opportunities to socialise and would have as well from day one, had I started homeschooling him then. You are very wrong. My parenting philosophy is you parent to the child you have in front of you, not to follow some arbitrary rule peddled by so called "experts", who do not know your child personally and cannot possibly know what is best for them. Since I became a mother and other young mothers would ask me for advice, the one thing I would tell them was I wouldn't give them specific advice but that rather they trust themselves when it came to their child because they were their mother and NO ONE on this earth knew their child like they did and that because of this relationship only THEY would ever know what was best for them, to NEVER let anyone talk them out of their instinct or intuition, even if they couldn't verbalise why they had come to a certain decision. To trust themselves first and only above all others and to parent to their child, who would tell them what they needed, even if it meant going against family, friends and experts.
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