Ron Says…

“An individual is unable to earn everything he needs in order to take care of his family and those that he has immediate care and charge of and he feels that the best thing to do is to make more money and so care for them better via money. So he assumes higher and higher levels of activity in order to achieve more and more money and so be able to pay more and more for the upbringing of children.

“This is not necessarily good, you know. If you take a quick survey of rich men’s sons, it’s something like a quick survey of ministers’ sons. It’s very lamentable.

“By the way, Scientology reverses this proceeding. It is the first thing known that reverses this proceeding. A kid born to a couple of parents who are Scientologists is a lucky kid. Although most of these parents will give the kid much more latitude of action than he really should have, this is still better, this is still better than a tight circumscription of every activity the child has. The kid’s pretty lucky. As a matter of fact, these kids that—around Scientology are pretty frisky and they’re generally very healthy and rather uninhibited and also, oddly enough, they seem to be a little kinder.

“I’ve made this test a few times. I’ve had one of them swat me, you know, and I said, ‘Ow! Ow, ow, ow!’ And the kid would look at me, you know, and wonder whether or not he shouldn’t process it out.

“But the minister’s son, the rich man’s son, rather argues against this idea that the best thing to do is to do everything there is to do for a family. The rich man is—feels that he will never be able to stand on his own two feet. He’s usually pushed around. He’s given much more than he should have, and he generally winds up in the juvenile court division. Quite routine for this to happen. But that’s because he is taught something else. He’s taught that somebody is taking care of him and therefore he must be a dependent unit. And it is dependency, the—his feeling of dependency which is about the only thing which is aberrative. Because his father is able to take care of him, or his mother or something like that, the kid is given this feeling of dependency.

“A child has, ordinarily, a great feeling of independence. And if this independence is brought up the line, why, we find that the child is pretty good.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from 9th American Advanced Clinical Course lecture
“Education: Goals in Society—Adult Education”
10 January 1955

Ron Says…

“The worst crime most Scientology parents commit is demanding the child be far better and brighter than he or she can manage at once. This has the effect of making the child feel that he can’t really do anything to please his parents and that he is thus failing them. The right thing to do is to acknowledge what the CHILD thinks he can do or is all right. Otherwise you are evaluating for the preclear and that’s a Code break. A child seeking the approval of his parents is always inventing new tricks to attract attention. This means the child is already feeling neglected without reason, but is not in itself any bad sign. Acknowledge the tricks and spend more time with the child.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ability® magazine, Issue 110
TECHNIQUES OF CHILD PROCESSING

Ron Says…

“Today’s children will become tomorrow’s civilization. Bringing a child into the world today is a little bit like dropping one into a tiger’s cage. Children can’t handle their environment and they have no real resources. They need love and help to make it.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“Supposing we had a classroom in which a child had to spend five, six, seven hours a day grinding away and he never got outside. We could suppose that with that much study he would learn something. But we see by experience that the more time he spends inside evidently over a certain ratio the less he learns. There is something wrong here with education.

“What could be right with education? Supposing you did this, supposing you said—you see they have a lot of problems. See, you couldn’t be able to do anything about this—but supposing you said this: For every hour a child spent at a school desk and in a schoolroom, he had to spend one hour on the athletic field under coached athletics which really were athletics. Not ‘Here’s a ball, boys, you play volleyball for fifteen minutes while I go over here and talk to Miss Brown who has just been appointed to staff.’ I mean real athletics, flat out.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“Tomorrow’s cases are child cases today. Whole civilizations have changed because somebody changed the children. In the past, the children were usually changed for the worse. Today let’s be different and change them for the better.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“The process of mock-ups is peculiarly apt for children, for in the main they possess brilliant ability. An adult preclear is filled with envy at the ability of a child to obtain mock-ups and control them. The time to salvage a human being and get him out of the past into present time is when that human being is a child, for he thus benefits from his environment and all his education within it. Out of present time, the data and experience is going nobody knows where.”

L. Ron Hubbard