But left alone humans tend towards self-serving behavior.
You don't have to teach kids to be selish.
Good point, but my kids at least seem to have empathy without being taught it.
Imo, kids pick that up from their parents basically just by watching how they behave. Especially when really young, kids soak up every last bit of information and they watch their parents all the time (hence why the moment you walk out of the room they will get upset). So if you're shitty in general, your kids will pick that up.
I believe that's why parents that are generally shitty people but still try to do things like stop their kids from swearing, saying please, and taking them to church, etc. still end up with shitty kids.
Edit: I'm assuming here that you have some semblance of empathy yourself.
Its a good theory as would say.
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