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From the article: “The essence of development is to help people build capacity to do things themselves,”

That is one of the most fundamentally Moral statements I have ever seen. Try replacing "development" with education. Or even better replace "development" with "raising your children".

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> That is one of the most fundamentally Moral statements I have ever seen. Try replacing "development" with education. Or even better replace "development" with "raising your children".

The essence of the positive deviance idea is to let the children raise themselves by abandoning the methods of their parents (of tradition) and instead monitoring the best practices of their peers, but I suspect parents would (with some justice) object to this interpretation.

Talking to your children in an honest way as independent people, working with them to come up with innovative solutions to problems, being inspired by their peers who have managed to overcome the same problem (the deviants) sounds like an EXCELLENT idea. I don't object at all.

I just meant that experienced parents would recognize, and try to stem, the narcissistic potential of an idea that would encourage rebellion in their children.

What defines "rebellion"?

To many parents, rebellion means doing anything other than what the parents instruct.

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