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I think peer pressure on children becomes the main focus only when parental guidance fails. When a child realizes parental love is conditional such as Christian parents who demand their children are Christian or else they will be shunned and ties will be broken. It is then that children turn to peers and are unduly influenced by their peers.
If parents realize that they are guardians of future generations of humanity and that their children are not their property then we can begin to teach our children well how to live in a pluralistic secular diverse society. When your children grow up and are on their own they will be given opportunities to confirm or reject your worldview. If you’re worldview reflects what your children encounter than that’s good however if the indoctrination into fantasy is given that your parental love is conditioned upon a collapse of society occurs. The conflict is resoled by compartmentalization of the human mind. This compartmentalized mind then is open and subject to newspeak, doublethink and domination by outside authority.
We raised our daughter in a manner that her sexual preference, her worldview, her career, her individuality was left to her own person. We guided her, as our biological daughter, to realize there was no outside authority higher than her own judgement in her personal life and recognizing that our society also had rules, regulations and laws in place, which might be changed by the individuals efforts. We live on an evolutionary planet and an evolutionary society where change happens, even as some things stay the same.
We as parents must realize that our children for most of their lives must live in the real world. Our children are with us a short while till they join the world at large. If we raise our children to conform, comply and cower to our authority as supreme parents we subject our children to the susceptibility of outside authority their whole lives. We as parents must celebrate the day our children challenge our authority over them as this is the beginning of their development into fully functional human beings. It is human nature to question everything instead of taking things on faith. Parents early on encounter this desire, this need to question. Every parent early one hears the constant “Why?” of an inquisitive child. We should celebrate this need and desire to question. This is when our children truly display the human mind.
Let us guide our children to take into account the opinion of others while trusting in their own decision making abilities. Teaching our children their is a higher power, a higher authority over their lives than themselves creates slaves to big brother whether big brother is a god, a Government or a charismatic cold blooded individual.
Teach our children to question everything. It’s the best guidance a parent can offer. 😉
yours in questions,
~plasmaborne
WealthShare Society 
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