Tee hee: “four pronouns and zero kids.” You make an excellent point--which I haven’t seen anyone else make before--that childless authors will have trouble understanding the concept of age-appropriateness, especially when they have a political agenda.
I was convinced of a similar point by a friend who is an Orthodox Jew and the child of Holocaust survivors and yet publicly supported the removal of Maus from the middle-school curriculum. He has a son, and he has written that Maus is not appropriate for middle schoolers, because it is unrelentingly bleak and extremely violent. Better for kids to read the book when they’re a bit older and better able to understand and absorb the ideas in the book.
I think we parents ought to keep making this point--that wanting kids to read book when they are ready for them, and not prematurely, is not the same thing as censorship, and still less genocide. It’s good parenting and teaching.
I remember seeing something on social media about a dad's struggle with his child adopting a transgender identity. A childless progressive responded with something to the effect of "imagine hating your kid because trans people exist".
I'm a childless adult too, so I can't claim any wisdom here. But I can at least kind of imagine the the emotions that might run through a father's head in that scenario.
I think the phenomenon of childlessness and it's effects are really intriguing topics I'd like to see explored. I talk to a lot of professional class women and so many don't want kids. I'm talking women in their late 20s and early 30s.
I never considered your point of the authors relating more to the child than the parent. It might explain a lot about the issue
Perfect set of questions during "Banned Books Week." And yes, I have noted that the writers, by and large, are not parents. Sometimes I think they imagine what their lives would be like if they knew the variety of possibilities of relationships at 5. But that's the adult them, not the 5-year-old them. The 5-year old them likely wasn't worrying at all.
I don't know if these childless authors are "relating more to the kids than the parents". I think they may be forgetting what it was like to be a kid at various ages and thus not really "relating" at all. I think back to when I was a kid and can remember some of the things I thought about, knew about, and was exposed to, and I would not want myself to be exposed to a lot of the stuff that kids are exposed to today. I would not have been able to handle it or understand it.
Tee hee: “four pronouns and zero kids.” You make an excellent point--which I haven’t seen anyone else make before--that childless authors will have trouble understanding the concept of age-appropriateness, especially when they have a political agenda.
I was convinced of a similar point by a friend who is an Orthodox Jew and the child of Holocaust survivors and yet publicly supported the removal of Maus from the middle-school curriculum. He has a son, and he has written that Maus is not appropriate for middle schoolers, because it is unrelentingly bleak and extremely violent. Better for kids to read the book when they’re a bit older and better able to understand and absorb the ideas in the book.
I think we parents ought to keep making this point--that wanting kids to read book when they are ready for them, and not prematurely, is not the same thing as censorship, and still less genocide. It’s good parenting and teaching.
I remember seeing something on social media about a dad's struggle with his child adopting a transgender identity. A childless progressive responded with something to the effect of "imagine hating your kid because trans people exist".
I'm a childless adult too, so I can't claim any wisdom here. But I can at least kind of imagine the the emotions that might run through a father's head in that scenario.
I think the phenomenon of childlessness and it's effects are really intriguing topics I'd like to see explored. I talk to a lot of professional class women and so many don't want kids. I'm talking women in their late 20s and early 30s.
I never considered your point of the authors relating more to the child than the parent. It might explain a lot about the issue
Perfect set of questions during "Banned Books Week." And yes, I have noted that the writers, by and large, are not parents. Sometimes I think they imagine what their lives would be like if they knew the variety of possibilities of relationships at 5. But that's the adult them, not the 5-year-old them. The 5-year old them likely wasn't worrying at all.
I don't know if these childless authors are "relating more to the kids than the parents". I think they may be forgetting what it was like to be a kid at various ages and thus not really "relating" at all. I think back to when I was a kid and can remember some of the things I thought about, knew about, and was exposed to, and I would not want myself to be exposed to a lot of the stuff that kids are exposed to today. I would not have been able to handle it or understand it.