Teaching Children the World Is Bad Isn't Protective

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Teaching Children the World Is Bad Isn't Protective
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Why highlighting the safe and good parts of the world may help your children in the long-run

“Across six samples…negative primals were almost never associated with positive outcomes...more negative primals correlated with worse outcomes, often dramatically worse.“Overwhelmingly, “seeing the world as very positive was associated with more positive outcomes than seeing the world as moderately positive.” Interestingly, positive primals correlated with better outcomes even in professions for which a dose of negativity would appear to be adaptive, such as law enforcement.

In the meantime, the authors suggest, “Parents…might consider pausing any well-meaning efforts to teach negative primals to children. After all, children too cannot escape the world. The only choice that they, or any of us have, is the power of deciding our attitude towards being here."

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