I don't have kids of my own, but I know parents, and I was also parented when I was a child. I think part of the problem is that the adult is expected to still

I don't have kids of my own, but I know parents, and I was also parented when I was a child. I think part of the problem is that the adult is expected to still put in 40 hours a week while raising a child, which is not easy, especially when you only have 2 parents. I was lucky enough to be raised in a family where one parent stayed home, and it made my childhood so much more richer than if I had gone to kindergarten and followed the standard programs those years. My parents remembered the programs from their childhood, and did not want me in there. I grew up in USSR, but I don't think it's that much different in the U.S. "Public education" teaches kids to conform, submit, normalize, and suppress their own imagination and enthusiasm. I don't think it's worth the "socialization", which can be accomplished in many other ways. But even worse, the conditioning forces children to develop an inner dialogue, something many adults spend the rest of their lives trying to silence. I am grateful to my parents for letting me have quiet time for thinking and reflection when I was a child.