How to raise children?

[DarthXedonias]

I would definitely say yes. If you look at "most" of the users here (myself included) most of us didn't exactly come from homes that exactly encouraged us to become self-actualized. If that weren't the case most of us probably wouldn't be here. I also think "education" has added a lot to this problem as well. I remember one of my college teachers talking about how education helps you to reach your full potential. I remember snorting at this because I realized I got more of my potential from running 1 year of Shannon's subs than 13+ years of education I got from public schooling or military training. The only thing Public education really taught me was how to sit in a class, not question the teacher, write down what the teacher says, memorize it, then regurgitate it back on a test paper later on.

Along these lines a question started to roam in my head. It has been said that the brain doesn't fully stop developing until your about 23. I started to wonder if maybe its not that the brain doesn't fully develop until your 23 but maybe the culture people find themselves in is causing this occurrence. Low and behold I actually found out that "Scientific American mind" posed this same question and found out that people in Western cultures were not having their brain fully developed until they around 23 while people in other cultures with lack of western influences (They found these influences to be Western TV, Education systems,and social media) were having their brains fully developed around 15 or 16 years old. They actually found that the prime time that the brain should be "developed" is around 16 years old. Which kinda of goes along with the idea in the past when you would be considered a adult when you between 13-15. You can find the article here:

http://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/Epstein-T...isphpreq=1

So, yeah I would definitely say children are not reaching their full potential. Not only that though, people are remaining "children" for a lot longer than they should be.