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JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 4.

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  As a result of having to disbelieve what they had been taught by parents and family. Or continuing to believe it to be 'true', despite the, let us say, scientific or experiential evidence to the contrary. This should or could lead us to believe that, a child's infant and junior education period, is a particularly stressful - as well as exciting - time for them.  Being one in which key players, parents, peers and teachers, present the child with opportunities and challenges in which they compete for the child's ears and loyalties.  It is a time when parents are probably most at risk of having their influence over their child diluted, if not lost.  That occasion when the child says, but 'Dad told me this..' or 'Mum told me that..', only to find that the objective evidence is not there to support what mummy or daddy told them. The challenges with which the child has to contend and negotiates, include that of being 'bullied' by other children.  Now