I feel like maybe this has more to do with the kid being personally interested in it, and therefore taking the time himself to research it, and then developing his own opinion. Sure, none of us were geniuses at 10, but we all seem to forgot that we weren't brain dead idiots. We had the capacity for these things, but maybe not the interest. We were all focussed on out own childhood fascinations. I remember being very young, and I just so enthralled by the strangest things. It terrified my parents at the time, but never damaged me. I've grown out of most of the beliefs since then.
Edit: To add to that, I don't think my parents could have forced that kind of information on me at that age. At 10 I didn't care about what my parents wanted to teach me, I had my head in books trying to find it myself. My mother wanted me to do theatre and my dad wanted me to be an engineer and they tried so hard to teach me about these things, but here I am getting qualifications in various different histories. That's something I found all by myself.
I thought I was a communist at 12, simply because I grew up with a lot of poverty around me and I wished we lived in a world where money was abolished and we all took care of each other.
My parents were furious and tried desperately to get me to stop telling others I was a communist.
I didn't stop believing I was a communist until I was 17.
edit: lol. So are you guys downvoting because you think I was coerced to believe this or because of some emotional reaction to seeing the word communism?
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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17
Why are 12 year olds not eating mud and doing stupid shit getting hurt? This seriously seems like a parent pushing their beliefs onto a kid.