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The Experimental Method

A child who is unusually shy can be allowed to seek their own social “level”, be punished for being unresponsive, or pushed into facing that which is uncomfortable. As an alternative, one can take a particular situation, such as with a shy child, and experiment to see at what distance from someone the shyness becomes acute. Further experimentation can be done to see if the child can take a step or two closer for a minute or two. In this way the child can discover the control they can exercise to push their boundaries.

Experimentation is a useful approach to many areas of life. It allows one to explore without making a total commitment. For example a newly married couple may find hurt feelings if a dinner prepared does not go well. However, if the same dinner had been declared an “experiment’ the couple might feel more at ease describing what could be changed in the future.

A sad fact of life is that new parents are not skilled at raising children. By the time they get better, they are often at the age when they stop having children. That many new parents do not live with or close to their own parents means that even if their parents had information that would be helpful, it is not easily accessible.

Since no one is able to step into an environment where a traditional family is the norm, one has to become adept at constructing experiments as a method to determine what is workable or improvable. There can be an advantage to an environment where a cultural momentum caries one along. However, the modern culture is so hostile to the traditional family that at every step one has to make intentional decisions. In a way, almost every decision becomes an experiment




  


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