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Originally posted by tatortodd:
What brought this up is my friends got their daughter a toy cleaning kit for Christmas and the last 6 weeks she has been going around the house happily pretending to clean.

Getting her trained right early. Good on them.

I agree with 'conditioning'

Indoctrinated has the connotation of propaganda imo.

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behavioral imprinting

Clever

Paternal

The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Roark is a good read.

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You Dad was imprinting a behavior in your implicit memory.

Imprint Period: 1 to 7 years
www.SerenityCreationsOnline.com/home/teenager_self_esteem.html

In this period the child’s brain is like a sponge…everything emotionally significant thing the child experiences tend to go straight into their subconscious mind. This makes most of the learnings during this period subconscious.

During the Imprint Period kids have not yet developed their mental filters. The most important things to a child are Mom and Dad – and their “blankie” of course.

So in a manner of speaking… Mom and Dad are the family hypnotists. The things that Mom and Dad say to their children… including the messages they send through their own behavior… are like implanting post-hypnotic suggestions into their minds that will stay with them for life.

Yes, kids ask a lot of questions…but they cannot put two and two together very well because they have not yet developed the ability to think in abstract terms. If they cannot hear it, see it, or touch it…it does not exist.

Little kids learn right from wrong like pets learn to obey… creating “habits” by laying down neural networks for the behavior through intensity and repetition. This is why you have to repeat yourself so many times when teaching your children such things as table manners, how to behave in public, not to pick their noses, etc.

So all the basic neural networks for how to do things in life are being laid down in this period of life. Most of us have been given very good programming from our “family hypnotists” in many ways.

And why don’t we know where “that” comes from? Because it’s operating from our subconscious mind – more specifically from our Implicit Memory.

Implicit Memory – Implicit memory consist of networks of skills, habits, and beliefs that we learn so well that they “drop into” our subconscious mind… like how to walk, talk, ride a bike, play psychological games and relationship mind games, etc…a neural network has been laid down in our implicit memory banks making the belief or pattern of behavior “second nature”. Key Point: Once we are “programmed” with an implicit neural network for these skills, beliefs, and habitual behaviors, consciously recalling the mechanics or circumstances involved in learning them is no longer necessary… we just automatically “know” they are truths about “reality” (beliefs) and how to do them (skills & habitual behaviors).

Positive Conditioning.

It can be fun to learn to do good things with people you love.

Prescience

Inculcate.

Not one, but several words.

Leading and Teaching By Example.

(is there another word for thesaurus? )

Mentoring. You prepare someone to assume greater responsibility.

duped!

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Originally posted by kkina:
Inculcate.

Agreed. This is the word that comes to mind for me.

I think the word "modeling" comes close.
Your Dad wanted you to model your behavior on what he was doing, and provided you with a "model" mower to do it!

inculcate
induce
imbue,
infuse,
brainwash,
indoctrinate

Mrs. M-11 has a photo of me with my son when he was about 2 or 3 and I was in the garage assembling a mower and he was standing over his little plastic one with a plastic wrench.

Subliminal?

parenting

I guess it’s natural but I find it interesting that those are such happy memories.

Thanks for the flashbacks -

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Originally posted by Mr. Peteroniman:
parenting

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