In Reply to: Depends on posted by cfb on Thursday, 6. October 2011 at 22:44 Bali Time:
You can teach them whatever you like but there will be situations they can't cope with and decisions they can't make because they don't have the mental or emotional resources yet. They don't have the life experience to back it up either. For the most part, despite all your warnings, they will try things out to see if what you say is true. Even if you tell them the stove is hot, they will still give it a little poke to make sure that is true.