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I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of what I can do in order to give my kid(s) a leg up in the future that may not be typical, strictly legal, or within the overton window of parenting.
The typical parenting strategies I already "get" and have plans for. Read early, go beyond school, foster the development of valuable hobbies and life skills, blah blah blah. My parents did a pretty good job IMO so I'm just really taking their formula and tweaking it.
I'm looking to optimize intelligence, SMV, athletic ability, and independence. Examples of things I'm considering but haven't done much research or fact-finding on:
Providing HGH at the optimal times to support height and muscle development.
Figuring out ways to accumulate wealth they can eventually access and avoid taxes.
Ways to give them maximum freedom of movement/flexible citizenship.
Ensuring they're guided away from porn/blue-pill sexuality guidance and (ideally) start off with more information on TECHNIQUE than I did. I think they'll figure this out themselves but I'm struggling to figure out how to do it without a profoundly weird conversation.
Put another way, I'm willing to take on risk to maximize long-term benefit for them, at what I think is a higher rate than the baseline parent. Off-the-wall thoughts and criticisms appreciated.
A lot of success comes from your network and how well you can leverage it. So increasing how social your kids are will help. Get them involved in many activities. If you can get them in events where they'll rub elbows with people above their social class, that would probably help a lot.
You also need to socialize your kids with people older than them, particularly adults. I've noticed a lot of young people seem to have been confined to the 'kids table' throughout their lives (and I don't just mean at big holiday meals, but in any situation where adults are present). And there seems to be no point at which they transition to sitting with adults beyond their age; they are always relegated to their peer group. This goes on until they graduate college, and suddenly they are thrust into the real world, and they are basically socially inept at communicating with their elders. Then they self-segregate, gravitating towards people their age, and miss out on opportunities.
Seconding this, and to turn it to another direction for @yofuckreddit , the best thing you can do to min-max for your kid is to be successful yourself. Have the networks where when your kid needs a job/loan/college acceptance/date/advice from an eminent person/institution he won't be some schmuck off the street, he'll be yofuckreddit's boy, from the very respected fuckreddit family. That will get your child much further than HGH.
A great family name is much better than game. A library named after you will get you into a much better school than 50 points on your SAT, and it will get you special attention from a professor that might make your career. Tons of great business successes start with family contacts, just having local people that will pick up the phone when you call or vouch for you to someone else is a huge leg up. And having rich friends is wealth you can access any time you need it, and is extraordinarily hard to take away from you, at a floor it can be a job or a bed in the pool house when you need it.
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