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Really? My 4-year-old gets anxious when I take the day off or even if it is a national holiday. She says I'm supposed to be at work so the family doesn't get hu
by thrownaway2424 13y ago
Really? My 4-year-old gets anxious when I take the day off or even if it is a national holiday. She says I'm supposed to be at work so the family doesn't get hungry. Saturday and Sunday are family days she tells me.
I'm not sure about children being born with the expectation of fatherly company. Historically it wasn't universal. Some native Americans had separate housing for men and for women and children. In other ancient societies men would leave en masse on hunting expeditions for whole seasons. Of course those civilizations were much more communal than ours and contained many more children.
- cunac 13y agoHaving children of my own I find very disturbing that 4 year old gets worried about such thing. For sure she didn't come up with that by herself but most likely listening/being told by parents
- bzbarsky 13y agoOr just by having fairy tales read to her, say. I don't mean Disney-fied ones, of course. If you read those, there's poor people, people starving to death, people out looking for firewood in the winter, etc, etc. And while some kids just accept it as-is others ask questions. Yes, at 4. It _really_ depends on the child.
- jamesbooker 13y agosorry, but your story sounds like absolute bullshit to me.