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> If I'm interested in buffer overflows and programming than my daughter must be highly interested in it too! How likely is that?

As a father, I am just trying to teach her everything I can, sometimes its programming, sometimes its fighting, sometimes its meditating.

Some of it will be of value, some of it wont.

> The odds are stacked but I see a good number of dads charge forward anyway.

The odds are always stacked. Such is life.



Not all paths have the odds stacked against you. Put yourself in her shoes. What does she like? What are her interests? What is she good at? Don't be so blinded by love that you lose all rationality.

Fighting physically is not what women excel at I wouldn't teach her that. A women's power comes in the form of social control and groups. If a man hits a woman he is engaging in a fight with all the men that protect her. That is a woman's power. A large portion of this power comes from how beautiful she is too. Most women figure out how to wield this power automatically depending on how they look. They grow up to be more fearful than men in general and will automatically learn behaviors needed to stay safe. Fighting is largely useless as any man easily overpowers the majority of women regardless of fighting skills. You'll have to train her in weapons that kill if you want her to have a chance at winning.

Anyway... from your reply I can sort of see that it looks like I'm generally right, despite how much the other replier doesn't want to believe it.


> looks like I'm generally right

nop


Really? I have no allegiance to being right. If I am please elaborate, is your daughter very interested?


> is your daughter very interested

Yes, why would I teach her something she is not interested in?


>why would I teach her something she is not interested in?

The answer to this question is startlingly obvious yet for some strange reason in this specific situation you can't see it. Why?

The majority of kids aren't interested in anything that schools have teach them. To them it is a chore to appease parents and to avoid consequence. If interest develops at all it usually comes much later.

But you see you should already know what I'm saying. Like I said it's quite obvious. The anomaly here is why your child is at all interested in buffer overflows. I would be interested in more elaboration on why your daughter is different from the norm.




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