"How do I keep my 10-year-old son from swallowing the red pill? We raised him to love everyone, to treat everyone equality and so on, but now that he's in elementary school, he's exposed to so much that we don't have control of. Specifically, one of his closest friends seems like he's being influenced by his dad, which is trickling down to my son."
"One of the hardest lessons to learn as a parent is that your kid is not necessarily always going to listen to you, think like you, or have the same set of values as you. It's simply the way of the world. That can be okay if you end up having different views on like... government spending or zone defense..."
A parent worries that a ten-year-old son is beginning to adopt harmful ideas from a close friend's family despite being raised to treat everyone equally. The child hears small phrases and concepts at school that are outside parental control and appear to be spreading from the friend's father through the friend. The mother fears that correcting or dismissing those ideas could provoke rebellion, particularly as a single parent without a father present. Parents must accept that children sometimes diverge from taught values, and such divergence can be manageable for minor disagreements but devastating when it affects core morals.
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