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CMV: It is better to let children get hurt and learn from their mistakes than to restrict them from ever trying, and, consequentially, when a kid is capable of filtering their speech, censoring becomes meaningless.

There are two points I am arguing for in here.

* It is better to let children learn by trial and error than to prevent a trial from existing

* Whenever a child is capable of handling a filter, then no censoring should be inflicted onto them.

That means, they should be allowed to know about sex, drugs, violence,  all of the bad stuff everyone tries to hide from them. They should get to know what they want to know about whenever they feel they are ready, and be warned of the possible consequences of their choices. So here, the job of the parent is to advise and guide them, but not to restrain or prohibit from **knowing**.

If seeing a sex scene traumatizes them, then they should learn how to deal with this experience in a healthy manner and overgrow it. If it goes badly, the child now knows to better trust the adult when they advise against certain content. If it goes well, the child comes out of the experience stronger.

When the kid cannot control their own behavior, teaching them swear words is asking for problems in school and etc. But when the child can be responsible for their own speech (I see 10 year old who can be, for instance) they should be allowed to communicate as they prefer, and be instructed on potential problems. Again, they should learn from their mistakes, even if this time from handling punishment for using a certain kind of language when it isn't needed. Like swearing in school or whatever.

The possible outcomes from this are a child who has better emotional maturity and sense of responsibility for overgrowing trauma, a child who better trust their parent's judgement for learning that the parent's warnings and tellings are often right, or, if done incorrectly, a traumatized kid with fucked up parents who will probably turn their kid into a dysfunctional adult. I argue that in this case the adult can still get better latter on in life and solve their own problems, that if parents can't even handle their own children's emotional state then them handling censoring and preventing them from doing anything should have similar consequences as the child still won't peak as an adult.
gpt
I do not fundamentally understand your notions.  Children are not neurologically capable of making good decisions about certain things.  Your job is to prevent them from severely harming themselves.  Failure to do so constitutes a crime in most civilized societies.  No one thinks children should never be able to experience trial and error so your point is either moot or too extreme for civilized society.

Children are also psychologically prone to long-term trauma from things we as adults experience regularly.  Trauma is not character building.  It's not like the immune system... getting over trauma isn't a skill anymore than healing from a broken limb is a skill.  Maybe you meant a different word than trauma, but it's basically by definition something that has lasting negative impact.  It messes with the brain in negative ways long term.