How do you teach common sense?

[Bono]

Really, either you have it or not.

Sorry for venting late at night. But have you ever tried to teach your kids or friends what is the right thing to do and why bother disrupting people's lives?.

What ever happened to the saying, if you do something bad for someone it will come back to haunt you ten fold?.

Don't hold grudges for too long it will come back to bite you.

Just saying.

 

[Lou Pole]

A sign that you have a daughter.

Good luck.

 

[a 1 player]

The problem with life is that it gives the test first and the lesson second.

 

[LisaOfToronto]

Common sense : you get it instilled from your parent/s guardian/s if you don;t you are fucked like idaho/bez/hof type ppls living a troubled life forever

 

[Butch]

[h=2]How do you teach common sense?[/h]
You can't. Say no more.

 

[007]

Common sense : you get it instilled from your parent/s guardian/s if you don;t you are fucked like idaho/bez/hof type ppls living a troubled life forever

Your life?

 

[Bubba]

Son, clean your room.

Why bother he says, it will be dirty again.

Too bad spanking is not allowed anymore.

 

[LisaOfToronto]

Your life?

007 lmao nice nick...a double crossing spy ...no trouble for you!!!

 

[Transient]

The best way to teach is by example.

 

[Buckfifty]

The best way to teach is by example.

Only if you are a good leader and can lead.

 

[Transient]

Only if you are a good leader and can lead.

Would be foolhardy to try to teach if you were not.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Common sense is actually not common.

 

[tboy]

I think common sense can be taught but since it is based on intelligence, if your kid is a bonehead, then you're in for it. The very core of common sense is the ability to make reasonable decisions. Rarely is there one perfectly "right" answer so you have to try and teach them to make decisions/choices that fits them best. The trick is: a decision made for him or her, might not be right for the next person.

Here's a good example:

A guy I worked for had a 2 or 3 yr old boy. This kid would climb up to the third step on the stairs and dive off.....mom or dad if they were anywhere near him would see him going up, and rush over to catch him. He'd do this over and over and over again. If mom or dad continue to catch him he'd just go higher and higher. This is teaching poor decisions/common sense because one day mom or dad won't be there and he'll get seriously hurt. This could apply to other ventures as he got older.

So one day junior was climbing the stairs, mom was rushing over to catch him, dad grabbed her and junior did a belly flop onto the hardwood floor.....of course he screamed, wasn't seriously hurt and yes, he never did it again.

If you coddle your kids, and make all their decisions for them, they'll never learn anything.......

 

[papasmerf]

you can teach common sense but it is difficult at best

however you can not teach stupid...........People are born like that.

 

[tboy]

you can teach common sense but it is difficult at best

however you can not teach stupid...........People are born like that.

that's the old "nature vs nuture" debate.....

 

[-b]

Either you have it.....or you don't.....or your mind opens and something clicks...
Survival of the fittest......

I think you teach what you know, like the first guy who goes and pats a lion, gets eaten...
Well his son has a child....he says don't go near the lion...or you will be eaten..but you
know you have one offspring who does not listen to your words of wisdom...thinks they can do it
well then they get eaten......:rofl1:

Ok in terms of today...Don't drive fast.......Hmm........Don't do drugs....Don't drink to assets....
Don't play with guns......Don't get married......ok not that one.....:biggrin:
Don't sleep with men....Shit not that one either....:LMAO:

Putting a rope around your friends neck and pulling him up is not fun.....
Playing with fire you will get burnt....

Now common sense .....a kid finds matches and gives it to the parents without learning it...but
can connect that matches cause fire......they just realize the danger......without having learned it...
but have abstract thought of what will happen....to survive....
My 2 cents....My son is very smart but common sense....OMG.....Do I wish.....

 

[Jesus]

Women have common sense.

Men have dicks.

Need I say more ;Notlistening:/

 

[-b]

Women have common sense.

Men have dicks.

Need I say more ;Notlistening:/

I think you meant to say " Men are Dicks"
Ok, ok......Sorry, Really. Really I am not.....:rofl!:

 

[SiNbaD]

How do you teach common sense?

To men or women?

Men look at things fifferent.

 

[Prick]

I think you meant to say " Men are Dicks"
Ok, ok......Sorry, Really. Really I am not.....:rofl!:

You mean men are pricks :shout: