Hello @nikv,

I hope everything works out nicely for you with the new vision and things go smoothly with the adjustment.

I often think that children today are being brought up to be rather snowflakey but it's easy to see how the pendulum swung in reaction to the Darwinism of the 1970s and 80s.

I often wonder if this evolutionary theory is diminished by the fact that it was named after Charles Darwin.
It perhaps might get more credence under a "natural selection" scientific category.

I cannot claim that we live in a survival of the fittest society, I can only claim that based on my perception; that's exactly what we live in.

Those spare the rod spoil the child demons were very active in my childhood as well. Weekly progress reports, I'll never forget what happened because of the "constructive criticism(s)." "He's doing really good in everything, I would like to see him improve on..." = bad report.

Now when I look at the past, present, and future, I can find a great deal of value in some of the "older ideologies" that supported the family unit. I just think some parents don't know what limits are because of their own personal deficiencies/problems/traumas, so they perpetuate some nasty cycles..

I've spent my life trying not to be like that and I hope I have succeeded.

You did, or you would not have the perceptual comprehension of the big picture.