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12 hours agoI’ve read a really interesting treaty of anthropology on kid a while back. It was written like a « how to parent book ». TL;DR there’s two opposing-ish view to parenting kid 1- kids are inerrantly good, because they come from god and blah blah blah (most westerners countries) 2- kids are inerrantly evil (devil pawn) and parent have to make them learn restraint (IIRC middle eastern countries)
On a purely pedagogic note a Canadian specialist have said : L’enfant n’est pas là pour faire notre affaire, il est là pour solliciter notre intervention en vue de l’aider à être et à devenir ce qu’il veut être. [Kids are not there to do our biding, they’re here to solicit our intervention to help them become what they want to be]
Personally I’m more on the [Charles E. Caouette ]specialist side. Kids are not good or bad, they’re asshole because they don’t know better.