Dr. Gabor Maté

Because the indigenous people did not hit their kids.

They didn't hit their kids.

They didn't hit their kids.

And the Christians couldn't understand this.

So what do they do?

They nourish them.

And when you nourish a child, see, nature has got a natural agenda, is that you should grow up to be a self-regulated child.

adult in connection with yourself and with other people.

That's nature's agenda.

It's like nature has an agenda for an acorn to become an oak tree.

But an acorn doesn't spontaneously become an oak tree.

It has to have the right conditions.

So it's not a question of teaching the oak tree, the acorn to be an oak tree.

Just give it the nourishment and the sunlight and the earth and irrigation.

that it needs, its nature is to become an oak tree.

The nature of human beings is to become self-regulated, socially responsible creatures.

That's how we evolved.

Given the right conditions, that will happen.

So it's not a question of teaching all these things.

Yeah, there's some teaching involved.