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How to Raise an Evil Child

Dr. Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. Neo-Traditionalist

Anyone wanting to raise a child susceptible to evil influences and with a high potential to become an evil person needs to follow these six steps.

  1. Tolerate any and all lies of your child.
  2. Give your child limited values, standards and expectations.
  3. Allow your child to be lazy.
  4. "Draw a line in the sand" and allow the child to step over it.
  5. Protect your child even when wrong and deserving of punishment.
  6. Establish an "unholy alliance" with your child.

1. Parents who assume their young child always tells the truth are doing a disservice to the child. Young children are unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality until taught the difference. A parent stating, "my child never lies" is dismissing feedback from others that may be beneficial in training the child to be honest. Reneging on the responsibility to detect lying is the surest way a parent can foster habitual, pathological lying. Once the web of dishonesty takes form it is hard to unravel.

2. Parents not establishing values, expectations, and standards for their child will produce an apathetic and lazy child. Parents are taught by today's politically correct child development experts not to impose their values on the child in this changing world. Without a foundation of values, expectations, and standards a child is easily persuaded, leaving them vulnerable to peer and cult forces. The lack of a tradition of values robs the child of an inner warning system to protect her from evil forces.

3. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop" is as relevant today as it has been in the past. A child without family duties and responsibilities has too much time to explore the dark side of life prevalent in our media. A child not trained to put forth his best effort will not develop his will power but instead loses his inner spirit. The child unable and unwilling to do for himself is demanding and often gets what he demands. This process of demanding and receiving creates an "entitlement mentality". When reality surfaces and the child is finally unable to get what he wants he becomes the perpetual victim. The victimization syndrome makes him susceptible to being preyed upon by others.

4. Parents often get upset with the child's behavior and set unrealistic consequences. The child says he is sorry and acts more respectful until the parent's anger passes. These parents seem to take a firm stand but eventually allow the child to get what he wanted. The child realizes the parent's word is alterable through manipulation.

5. Using parental power to protect a misbehaving child is condoning the child's misdeeds. This is a "slippery slope" that leads a child down the path to criminality or mental illness. Humans learn to avoid certain behaviors because of the pain received. The parent protecting his child from other authorities even when the child has done something wrong is a sure fire way of raising an out-of-control, mean spirited, selfish child.

6. The parent's last resort in protecting the child from his own actions is to blame and accuse another person. Usually this person is the one who reported the child's misdeed in the first place. The parent becomes an accomplice by protecting the child. The child in return acts repentant to the parent. When parents fail to punish their child for his misdeeds and instead accuse others for their child's inappropriate behavior, the child is led to believe he is above authority's law. To know your parents will defend you even when you are wrong allows many evil forces to surface. These evil forces attract other like souls and make it that much harder to turn back to good. Parental defense of the wayward child is not done out of love. Instead it is a selfish act to protect their own reputation this is an unholy alliance.

Several generations ago many evil people could be traced to physically abusive and/or neglected childhoods. The sad reality is today's children are not being trained to be civilized and spiritual people. Any extreme, either being overly controlling through physical abuse or allowing the child to "do their own thing" without training in character development will result in fertile ground for producing an evil person. Parents have to be parents not protectors of their child at all costs or they run the risk of raising an evil child.