Can you teach Common Sense?

its funny that you bring this up because I was just conversing with my friend the other day on how my generation and all the ones after me are Weaker Yet wiser... today parents teach their kids all that they feel will benifit them in the future not realizing it clashes with them being a child... you have to grow to know things experience is the best teacher... My mom always said Bought wisdom is beter than told... and common sense can't be taught you have to have instinctivly...

Its like you said this will come with experience. But it is sad but many adults like commonn sense or just refuse to use it...Peoplely with their foolishness.. I belive this is a lack up proper parenting, many times its because the parents were not around becaus they were working all day..I think that is part of the job God intended for the parents to provide. I don't think God intended for both parents to to work and leave the children to try and figure things out by themselves. God created animals with commonn sense almost animals can survive at a young age without parents. So God gave us something to do..If a child was born with common sence they would not need parents. Kind of like animals. You have to teach a child not to run in the street or not to touch fire...That is learned common sense. If a grown person/adult touches fire you would say"where is your common sense"?...so yes you have to teach kids common sense..

Common sense is rare (Ralph Waldo Emerson), therefore, true common sense is uncommon - true common sense is "uncommon sense". Emerson and Einstein believed that common sense is so rare that it is Genius. Clearly, genius is quite uncommon! "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Albert Einstein I remember when this one woman told me You have Book sense but no common sense when I was in high school. I use to find that offensive when she told me that, but now I don't. Who can determine if you have sense? I had sense enough to make something out of my life and she is still where she was 15 years ago.

I think some parents are so intent on having a brainbox as their child they forget to teach them the basic skills they need in life, such as common sense. Parents seem to wrap their kids in cotton wool and refuse for them to experience any knocks or hardship that comes with growing up. I don't mean horrible things but even down to falling out with their friends, parents interfere instead of letting their kids deal with things on their own. A parent at my nursery is murder. His son got accidently scratched by his friend so the father kept the child off, saying he didn't want his son coming to nursery to get scratched. Then he kept him off because he didn't like the school dinners and was having nightmares. We have never forced his child to eat anything he didn't want to. On another occassion he kept him off because he fell and hurt himself one day. Each time the father phones in and expects us to run around him and believe that his son is so distraught he does not want to come back to nursery. What is so funny though is each time he brings his son back, he runs off straightaway and goes and plays with his friends. He loves coming to nursery. We recognise it is the father who just cannot accept that his son is growing up and becoming independent from him. Parents seem to be getting worse. The amount of kids I work with who are smothered by their parents, it must be awful for them. We are our kids teachers who have a responsibility to help them grow into mature adults not a bunch of whimps they seem to be making them.

While I am a firm believer in education and "book learning"....I do not believe that you can "teach" common sense....I do think that we as parent are supposed to teach our children ways to "deal" with the world....like teaching honesty, responsibility, respect for others and independence. Common sense, in my opinion, you have to be born with.

Well my experience common sense is developed over time now granted some people never occur it. It is not something I believe you can teach, now book smarts are very important but without the ability to apply that knowledge to life it will be useless. You need both book smarts and common sense one without the other leaves you open to deception and limits your judgement.