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Re:Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017) by afiori on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:33AM (#23414837)
In a sense I am exactly in your son position (even if quite older already) I don't really have to blame my parents, but sure as hell I did everything I could to avoid learning any discipline and now I am paying for it in predictable ways.

As often happen Scott Alexander has written a nice article on the topic; in this case it is a review of a Chinese-American mother that lives the Chinese education system through a western lens and comes to like some of the differences.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/22/book-review-review-lit...

Re:Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017) by adwn on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:57AM (#23414977)
As with all articles on SSC, the comments are also very much worth reading.

In addition, one should keep in mind that there are ways to instill some discipline and self-control into one's children that don't turn them into mindless little automatons (as the Chinese school in the reviewed book tries to do).

Re:Postmodernism and Its Impact (2017) by m0zg on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:52PM (#23424924)
Admitting you have a problem is the first, necessary step to solving it, so kudos to you - better late than never. A lot of people go through their entire lives without realizing they have a problem in the first place.