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Re: Bel Marshall,

That seems to be the necessary process of maturity: checking back on what we were taught/programmed in childhood and either updating, discarding, or re-affirming those things.

posted by Ciel on August 29, 2014 at 7:05 AM | link to this | reply

Re: FormerStudentIntern.

Yes, it really is!

posted by Ciel on August 29, 2014 at 7:04 AM | link to this | reply

Re: BC-A

Children start out savage and pure. The very long childhood of human children is for the learning of social/emotional skills, as well as those needed to survive and thrive physically. Not just how to get food and shelter, but how to live among our own kind. Of course, how a society defines "our own kind" is also a measure of civilization.

posted by Ciel on August 29, 2014 at 7:03 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Kabu,

Fear of falling is considered one of the few 'hard-wired' elements. Pretty much all the rest are learned. Learning of fears and hatreds and expectations of people, these are not genetic. Even some that are evidently the Great Ape family heritage, like territoriality, like violence and brutality, are things that can be modified, even un-learned.

posted by Ciel on August 29, 2014 at 6:59 AM | link to this | reply

I am working on UNLEARNING

Some of the the things I was taught in childhood.

posted by Bel_Marshall on August 28, 2014 at 7:20 PM | link to this | reply

It is fascinating how we learn.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on August 26, 2014 at 5:23 PM | link to this | reply

An awesome beginning for children love.

posted by BC-A on August 26, 2014 at 2:38 PM | link to this | reply

I wonder if some of our survival beliefs and techniques are already in our DNA from conception.

posted by Kabu on August 26, 2014 at 2:13 PM | link to this | reply