You do bring up something that I did not consider when titling this blog. True, this is coming from, I supposed, a developed country perspective with capitalism as its economy.
There is a lot you provided and I will be reading through it making comments as they are warranted. :)
Thank you so much for taking the time out to share so much...truly appreciated.
All good things you list. I cannot help to wonder how the specific gender differences would be frowned upon by fanatics. ...unless, you are talking about child rearing activities.
All a good point, something I mentioned to my ex-gf's son....about pure pressure.
Daniela, so true about skills. There is a commercial on tv right now where kids are depicted as not even being able to change a tire on their car. With all this automation we are heading towards, it almost makes me what sort of skills will be needed 10 to 20 years down the road. Good tip though.
I think it is important for the parent(s) to let their kids kinda go out and do light duty responsible things on their own. For example, a friend of mine give guitar lessons, and the you boy who was learning, had his father smothering him.
I have a question Molly....let's say you were raising a child for adulthood. (you may actually be...but..) What would be the most important thing you would want to make them realize and become aware of?
When children reach adulthood, for the most part, they only know what their parents have told them. In today's world, many children only have one parent...so they learn half. Just because a person is a parent, does not make them all knowing of life. They only know what their parents have passed on. It is up to the adult to fill in the missing pieces of what was not taught to them from their parent(s). Unfortunately, a lot of these new adults entering the world believe they know it all already, and do not go out and seek any missing knowledge.
So....maybe another tool would be learning to be somewhat curious?
Good stuff Molly. Common sense and real life experiences are connected...but, you need to learn from those real life experiences to develop common sense.
Learning from other people's mistakes is not completely bad either...as long as the mistake's context they are made in are not solely unique to perpetrator's life.
Thanks Molly.
The can opener in the back pocket, I thought was a given for going through life.
Thank you for sharing your experience in the hospital. I can imagine that would be a prime place for supernatural activity. I have heard of an experiment once in a hospital emergency room where they prove that out of body experiences do happen. Great info L.L..
As far as you do not know what you are getting involved in with spells....I agree.
If it is true, that could be a dangerous and dark path to go down.
If not true, the power of suggestion could have one living a self-fulfilled prophecy.
A great additional explanation. And, it adds additional support to the fact that religion has been around for a long time...and for why?
Is it possible that during ancient times...and perhaps into the present...there have been visits to this planet and the people on it? Hence, these visits has allowed us humans to develop "religious beliefs."
Science cannot explain the nature of spells and magic(k).
As well as, science cannot explain a lot of physical things that exist on this planet from ancient times.
A lot of what you say about being dark and dangerous, holds true to what I have been hearing from areas I have looked at about these certain religions. Although, Wiccans claim to use their supernatural powers for the good.
If none of this religious stuff is real, that would then offer the assumption that people from day one has had this obsession with deceiving themselves.
Which, I really find hard to believe.
But, it is said the number one liar to us are ourselves.
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Good tip though. 
We all have to survive/tools.
Star,You do bring up something that I did not consider when titling this blog. True, this is coming from, I supposed, a developed country perspective with capitalism as its economy.
There is a lot you provided and I will be reading through it making comments as they are warranted. :)
Thank you so much for taking the time out to share so much...truly appreciated.