Ego and stubbornness are different animals.

You are right. Perhaps it was better to say that being stubborn with the wrong mindset for the time is dangerous.

if your family unit teaches you real skills at a young age, you develop the idea that you are a capable person and therefore experience self-worth, or self-esteem

I agree with this. While I wasn't actually taught that many skills, I was fortunate enough to be in an environment where I was left alone with resources to learn things on my own. While my father didn't teach me many skills, he was there to tell me stories and he bought me 2-3 sets of encyclopedias to read and eventually got me a computer for me to learn how to program on when I was a kid.

My mother wants to 'do everything' for my niece and nephew even if it's trivial and I know it's dangerous for their development. I stop her and tell them to learn how to do things on their own. I take the time to make them participate with cooking and I've taught them to lift those 5 gallon distilled water containers from the door to the kitchen, made them butcher and debone a whole chicken and then batter it up when they want to eat breaded fried chicken. When my nephew wanted ice cream, I made him walk with me in the rain to the store to get some so that he'd understand what it took to get ice cream under those conditions.

I'm aware that it's very hard to break out of being raised in a bad environment, but we're not all dealt the same cards when we start.

I believe I've read that it takes about 3 generations to subvert a society, based on what Yuri Besmenov said in his video. That would mean the current generation that was raised wrong and can't adapt will have to die out due to their poor upbringing and decisions before the survivors who got it right can raise a new generation with the proper values. The kids they leave behind will fall into hardship and that will hopefully give those that survive to grow up a better mindset.

Ego and stubbornness are different animals.

You are right. Perhaps it was better to say that being stubborn with the wrong mindset for the time is dangerous.

if your family unit teaches you real skills at a young age, you develop the idea that you are a capable person and therefore experience self-worth, or self-esteem

I agree with this. While I wasn't actually taught that many skills, I was fortunate enough to be in an environment where I was left alone with resources to learn things on my own. While my father didn't teach me many skills, he was there to tell me stories and he bought me 2-3 sets of encyclopedias to read and eventually got me a computer for me to learn how to program on when I was a kid.

My mother wants to 'do everything' for my niece and nephew even if it's trivial and I know it's dangerous for their development. I stop her and tell them to learn how to do things on their own. I take the time to make them participate with cooking and I've taught them to lift those 5 gallon distilled water containers from the door to the kitchen to butchering and deboning a whole chicken and then battering it up when they want to eat breaded fried chicken. When my nephew wanted ice cream, I made him walk with me in the rain to the store to get some so that he'd understand what it took to get ice cream under those conditions.

I'm aware that it's very hard to break out of being raised in a bad environment, but we're not all dealt the same cards when we start.

I believe I've read that it takes about 3 generations to subvert a society, based on what Yuri Besmenov said in his video. That would mean the current generation that was raised wrong and can't adapt will have to die out based on their poor upbringing and decisions before the survivors who got it right can raise a new generation with the proper values.