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I was really curious when reading the title, but think this is pretty poorly written article. I don't know what this article is saying. Someone help me out. Fi

I was really curious when reading the title, but think this is pretty poorly written article. I don't know what this article is saying. Someone help me out. First he tells a story about how a teacher was passionate about a topic, but he wasn't. Then a story about he was passionate, but adult figure was not. How shame gets weaved into this? Something about being yourself? But he was being himself with the french teacher. Also, why does an adult who tries to steer him in a certain direction by "saying in a derisive tone, 'Don’t you want to go to the park and have an ice cream with me instead?'" gets called a abusive narcissist. Also "simply ignorant, unaware, and wrapped up in his own pain". As an adult, I think influencing kids in a certain direction is part of the job? Maybe this adult could have done it better, but going to park and have an ice cream isn't too bad of an attempt.

rosser 7y ago
When a child expresses curiosity, an adult who responds in a manner that involves a dismissive "instead" should probably seriously reconsider their life choices — especially the ones that led to them interacting with children in the first place. Clearly, in this account, the adult's manner made the child feel awkward about their interest and curiosity. I remember countless times as a child being interested in something, or curious about how it worked, only to be told I was being annoying, or distracting, or rambunctious, or whatever. Some of those curiosities continued, and led to me becoming a technologist. Others, I can't even remember what I was interested in — just the feeling of having had my emotions manipulated by an adult, so that I wouldn't be "in their way". It is, in the general case, shitty adulting to shut children down like that.

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I was really curious when reading the title, but think this is pretty poorly written article. I don't know what this article is saying. Someone help me out. Fi

by appleiigs 7y ago

rosser 7y ago
When a child expresses curiosity, an adult who responds in a manner that involves a dismissive "instead" should probably seriously reconsider their life choices — especially the ones that led to them interacting with children in the first place. Clearly, in this account, the adult's manner made the child feel awkward about their interest and curiosity. I remember countless times as a child being interested in something, or curious about how it worked, only to be told I was being annoying, or distracting, or rambunctious, or whatever. Some of those curiosities continued, and led to me becoming a technologist. Others, I can't even remember what I was interested in — just the feeling of having had my emotions manipulated by an adult, so that I wouldn't be "in their way". It is, in the general case, shitty adulting to shut children down like that.