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sigh I once read that Americans over-estimate children and under-estimate age (and expertise in general). This shows so well. Can children enjoy food? Music?
by magice 13y ago
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I once read that Americans over-estimate children and under-estimate age (and expertise in general). This shows so well.
Can children enjoy food? Music? Play music properly? Pursuit passions? Spending days glued to a book? Of course, make it a series of books. Obviously, I just listed the obvious activities. Can children feel the full depth of betrayal? Full happiness of unexpected return? Full hopelessness in face of impossible? Full excitement when attaining things once thought impossible?
Children are stupid, shallow, short-sighted, undeveloped. They know nothing save the most primitive urges. They do nothing save screaming for help. They are, in short, very young humans who need growth. They are neither angels nor saints, but CHILDREN.
Wake up, please, from your disrespect and overly-spoiling of children.
- ANTSANTS 13y agoChildren are perfectly capable of all of the things you listed, have you forgotten what it was like to be one? They're certainly naive, less mature, less self-aware, not as bright, and so on, but they're still there. They're still people, just an earlier form of what they'll grow up to be. I don't like the "my little Timmy is a one-of-a-kind snowflake genius!" trend either, but that idea is easily less harmful than the idea that children are mindless cattle driven purely by their id. If you treat children like animals, using only external motivation to guide them, don't be surprised when they act like them. If you actually talk to kids and try to get at their real interests and motivations, I bet you'd be surprised at what you find.