Parenting strategies for blurring your kid’s (or AI’s) self-other boundaries:
Love. Love the kid. Give it a part of you. In return it will do the same.
Patience. Appreciate how the kid chooses to spend undirected time. Encourage the kid learn to navigate the world themselves at their own speed.
Stories. Give kid tools for empathy by teaching them to read, buying them a camera, or reciprocating their meanness/kindness.
Groups. Help kid enter collaborative playful spaces where they make and participate in games larger than themselves, eg sports teams, improv groups, pillow forts at sleepovers, etc.
Creation. Give them the materials/support to express themselves in media which last. Paintings, writing, sayings, clubs, tree-houses, songs, games, apps, characters, companies.
Epistemic status: riffing, speculation. Rock of salt: I don’t yet have kids.
Parenting strategies for blurring your kid’s (or AI’s) self-other boundaries:
Love. Love the kid. Give it a part of you. In return it will do the same.
Patience. Appreciate how the kid chooses to spend undirected time. Encourage the kid learn to navigate the world themselves at their own speed.
Stories. Give kid tools for empathy by teaching them to read, buying them a camera, or reciprocating their meanness/kindness.
Groups. Help kid enter collaborative playful spaces where they make and participate in games larger than themselves, eg sports teams, improv groups, pillow forts at sleepovers, etc.
Creation. Give them the materials/support to express themselves in media which last. Paintings, writing, sayings, clubs, tree-houses, songs, games, apps, characters, companies.
Epistemic status: riffing, speculation. Rock of salt: I don’t yet have kids.