Book 3: Teachers/Parents and Mental Health

Teaching children to speak accurately can eliminate a huge number of adult problems.

OVERVIEW: THE DILEMMA OF BEING DELUSIONAL

Teachers (parents), are you aware younger children (less than 12 years of age) are delusional? You may have had reason to think something was wrong with the majority of children, but you may not have figured out what it was.

Most adults are not good at reasoning. In our society, we have a lot of stereotypes for people who do not reason well: she is just blonde, his brain is between his legs. It is sad, but most people do not think very accurately. It is not easy to do when we deny the obvious, when we see only what we want to see, when we let our feelings, or our biases, overrun our judgment, and when we do not make an effort to think through the consequences of either our thoughts or our actions.

Another component of inaccurate thinking and subsequently inaccurate speech occurs when children and adults do not discern between cause and effect and sequential ordering of events. 

Do you know the necessary components to actually be responsible for something?  

Aggression is attributed to as many different causes as is suicide. Is the same factor present in both? 

The two major issues in life are not Freud’s Oedipus complex and penis envy, they are lying (dishonesty) and blaming. In Sophocles’ Oedipus, Oedipus did not want to kill his father and marry his mother as Freud suggested the average boy (child) desires; in fact, Oedipus found it so undesirable and repulsive, he blinded himself when he understood what he had done.