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No, my experience is that across the world, childhood is packed with household chores and playtime. It’s abnormal to treat childhood development as a progressio
by ttyprintk 3y ago
No, my experience is that across the world, childhood is packed with household chores and playtime. It’s abnormal to treat childhood development as a progression toward an institutional goal. The parent post is talking about not giving their child a complex that leads to an abnormal life.
- rayiner 3y agoWe are talking about adolescents. And at least in Asia, intense competition toward educational goals is a normal part of adolescence: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2010/03/30/high-stakes-testing-try-india-s-system/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2010/03/30/high-st...
- ttyprintk 3y agoRespectfully, this is an opinion piece. It’s very agreeable, but doesn’t carry the same authority as Wikipedia, which claims less than half of India goes through secondary school. What you’re saying is true and intense and routine, but not universal nor accepted as the norm.
- rayiner 3y agoLess than half of Americans graduate college, but there’s a widely accepted set of norms around the “college experience.” Villagers in India aren’t taking high stakes tests to get into college, because college isn’t open to them. But if it were they would be doing the same thing. Put differently, in the social class of people for whom college is attainable, it’s not like there’s a huge fraction telling their kids “oh, don’t worry, just do what makes you happy.”