I’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]
After five kids, I’m convinced it’s the second one. They sure are sweet, but they will lie and cheat to get whatever they want before they can speak the truth.
But I suppose the innocence of youth is not the same as the legal definition of innocence. Its not so much what they do but more that they don’t know any better yet.
I’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]
After five kids, I’m convinced it’s the second one. They sure are sweet, but they will lie and cheat to get whatever they want before they can speak the truth.
But I suppose the innocence of youth is not the same as the legal definition of innocence. Its not so much what they do but more that they don’t know any better yet.
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.
Kinda. They want to do what they want, and need to know where the boundaries are. so they push on the edges of the boundaries.
It’s quite tiring.