Lots of respect for this - I’d guess your kids have it too. I often felt frustrated as a kid that adults took power and control over you and didn’t adhere to the same demands themselves.
"1996: The Israeli secret service finds that a cell phone can be used for things other than chatting with friends. It also makes a pretty nifty little bomb for disposing of an enemy, which is what happens to Yahya Ayyash on Jan. 5, 1996 when he tries talking on a booby-trapped phone " https://www.wired.com/2007/01/introducing-the-cell-phone-bom...
It's more akin to an adult lecturing you about the harms of junk food and controlling everything you eat while they themselves eat nothing but cheetos. It creates an adversarial relationship. You can rule as a tyrant, but it's not that pleasant for those that have to suffer through it. Obviously there are outlier exceptions (drinking, driving, very young children etc.) but even those are mostly for societal consequence reasons vs. individual capability.
Autonomy is really important - being empowered to actually make the good decision.
It's a matter of respect imo, adults often have too little of it. The best teachers I had, had a lot of it.
Kids observe, if you tell a kid to be generous but you behave selfishly the kid will assume you're full of shit and ignore what you're saying. The opposite is also true. Talk is cheap, what you actually do is what matters.
Nah, driving is also stressful and traffic is not fun.
I’ve seen recently a fair amount of car enthusiasts start buying into the walkable cities/public transit mantra, because a car enthusiast does not find city/suburban stop and go traffic to be the thing they’re enthusiastic about.
Right but that didn't change in last 20 years. Cities that suck driving (and walking) in now sucked as much and more 20 years ago. It's not that that changed how much people want to have driving license.
The amount of delay has increased over the last 20 years with a blip when everybody was locked down. Lane miles have not kept up with population growth or increasing sprawl, and investment in alternatives to traffic is quite poor.
