A speaker critiques how many African households teach children excessive deference to visitors and authority through harsh discipline, which he says creates trust issues and suppresses courage. He calls for moving away from this "old model" toward parenting that empowers rather than diminishes children.
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Never train your child with so much respect that you beat audacity out of them. When they see visitors, they run like rats. They've learned how to see people as better than them. They're trying because visitors are more important. We cook the nice things when we have guests. That's the mentality we raise them with, and you call it home training. Then we have the pattern of small-mindedness. That must stop. There are people who are still running with the old model of parenting. An average home in Africa, we beat boldness out of children, beat courage out of them, spank them with the hand of Satan. Have you seen a case where a mother will say, yeah, pass, pass, pass, or pass? You do like this, oh, as the child passes, you wonder why the child is having trust issues. You taught the child. That's the training. No, that's the training. The model we are running with, what kind of people