parents

Parents are the two individuals (male and female) who usually enact the initial imprinting of their child. In society today, for the first 2-3 years, they account for the whole influencing environment of their child, and up to 15-20 years they usually represent most of it anyway. Hence, they can essentially decide his/her nature: healthy or unhealthy, peaceful or violent, good or evil, whether his/her future will be like heaven or hell.

Imprinting takes place anyway, even if parents refuse (as some ideologists of the 1960s used to advise quite peremptorily, for that matter) to educate their child, his/her brain will necessarily develop a given structure. In such cases what forms in the child’s brain is utter chaos, so those who have been abandoned to such a condition will have a lot of trouble trying to find their own identity and personal balance in their adulthood.

The worst case is undoubtedly that of childnapping, a wicked or unhealthy imprinting enacted by a manipulator, that is to say specifically inculcated with sinister mental mechanisms which usually go undetected. This is more easily done in single-parent situations, as whether the single parent is in a relationship or not, it is still he/she who exerts total influence on the child and who lays the foundations for the development of the child’s brain without a natural check and balance by the other parent, which has always been the key element stimulating the child’s earliest similitudes/differences. This is exactly how the basic part of the interpretive brain works and leads the child to the gradual development of his/her own judgment and will.

So, imprinting is like a large sphere expanding throughout life, with a basic nucleus at its center, which is the most difficult part to reach. This is why it is much easier to change an attitude than a principle or an ideal, or why any teacher or craftsman says it is easier to teach a technique to a virgin than it is to correct the technique a mature person has already acquired.

Cfr. mental development