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In today's world, our children face many dangers. Peer pressure encourages children to engage in behaviors that may harm them. One way to ensure your child doesn't follow the crowd is to raise him to be socially awkward. Many potentially bad influences are eliminated if your child is friendless and peer free. This is not an overnight project to be engaged in lightly. You need dedication and commitment to create a truly unsociable child. It takes years of hard work and perseverance. The rewards, however, are worth the effort. The following guidelines should help you achieve your goal.

1. Convince your child he is completely different from other children. Your message should be that he has no peers. To reach maximum effectiveness, begin this tactic as soon as possible. Some ambitious folks start at birth. The obvious way to achieve this goal is to make the child feel that he is a disappointment, that every other child is better than him and that he is worthless. However, this often brings unwanted attention from grandparents, teachers and other "concerned" parties. An often overlooked technique, however, is to convince the child he is better than everyone else in some way, that he is smarter or more talented, for example. This is the method I recommend. In order for this to work, you have to go beyond simply praising the child's talents. You must actually make the child feel that other children are beneath him. This method is much harder to criticize and equally successful. This step is very important, as it makes the child feel isolated even when he is with other children.

2. Now that you have convinced the child that he is special and gifted, you have to start sending mixed messages. For instance, if you have gotten the child to believe he is smarter than every other child on earth, you need to treat him with disdain. Speak to him in a contemptuous tone of voice. Correct him with phrases like "for someone who's supposed to be so smart, you sure act dumb" and "don't you ever think before you act?" Adapt the technique to your specific situation. If you've targeted other talents, simply criticize the way the child performs in those areas. The goal here is to keep the child totally off balance. This will make the child completely unable to trust his instincts.

3. Expect perfection. He should be under pressure to get everything right the first time. Constantly belittle him for every mistake. Laugh cruelly at his expense. Make him feel that he has let everyone down.

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