Advice on parenting

One of the major causes for parent's grief is the erroneous belief that he can, with the help of resources/attention, "make" his child genius. Now genius as we understand is a matter of genetic anomaly, and there is not much that can be done about it, or should be done about it*.
However it is essential that the child is encouraged to "realize" his genius. A carefully calibrated regimen of education, contempt and abuse goes a long way in achieving this.

However the problem is first, there is no way to tell apart an idiot from a genius, and second most probably your child is an idiot. Since it is not possible to transform an idiot into genius, the difficulty then is to determine the goal that a parent must set for himself. But before elaborating on the solution that I would like to clarify something.

Many parents react negatively to the information that their ward is idiots. Some even reject it outright and continue to live in denial, thus ensuring life long bitterness and frustration for child.
The truth however, there is no shame in being idiot, in fact it is more than normal. A healthy phenotype will imply that the result will be idiot. It is only with anomaly that we get geniuses.

Now to return to the topic, the goal that a parent for idiot must aim for, should be cultivation of a competent, adequate and well intentioned ignoramus. Fortunately the means to achieve this is not much different from the case of a genius i.e. education, contempt and abuse calibrated as the situation demands.

To help further, by competent I mean anyone who can handle tools (including computers), by adequate he is able to save himself from his actions**, and well intentioned enough to "believe" (in anything).

Please remember success of society depends on your success in ensuring the continuation of idiocy.

PS I hope this was of help.

* It is possible to introduce mutations through radiation or reading mint, it is not advisable though as you can end up with phantom of opera, three breasted whore or worse Shivam Vij.
My advice in that case, be actively pro-choice.

** In case your ward doesn't prove adequate, you can send him to do PhD in marketing or health policy.