How I teach my sons:

I want them to respect others just like they wanted to be respected themselves. I don't want them to shy away from debating and discussing with others in the event of different opinions. Sharing different opinions is good, it improves mutual understanding. In many cases, different sides may not be able to come to agreement. I want my sons to know that all that is acceptable because people are born differently. I want them to raise disagreement with reasons, good reasons even if other side may not see it or agree to it. I want them to accept good reasons that others may raise.

The last thing I want my sons to do is mocking others to try to boast self-confidence. Self-confident can't be raised that way. We as human, sometimes, feel hard to accept others due to our own ego. It's an animal instinct to try to vent out sarcasm, derision or irony. But as we get more educated, we'll find out that this doesn't work. I want my sons to understand that too. I want them to control their animal instinct and learn from Aristotle: "Virtue is a habit". Speaking with reasons is a virtue.

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• ding! totally agree! -芦苇葱葱- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 09:28:04

• 现在才知道众乡亲都被他骚扰过.简直是人神的公fen -le- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 09:58:41

• You must also tell your sons there are bad guys in the world, -cultuslake- ♂ (289 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 10:48:22

• Well, I believe in the fundamental grace in every human being -miat42- ♂ (402 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 11:12:01

• 人性是复杂的 -芦苇葱葱- ♀ (136 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 11:29:04

• DDD! -Sunron- ♀ (120 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 12:28:35

• 回复：How I teach my sons: -silicon-guy- ♂ (238 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 12:57:30

• True, over-confidence is a mistake often made, including me -miat42- ♂ (112 bytes) () 12/06/2007 postreply 13:11:42