a blatant violation of human rights for an adult. Like bullying is just “oh well kids will be kids” when if an adult did that to an adult that’d be assault and a serious crime and like corporal punishment is considered unacceptable for adults (although it happens often enough because people are fucking monsters) and like if IDK a college professor or something did it that would be abbarant and horrifying but somehow we’re more okay with hitting little kids?
Like somehow that’s acceptable?
…Capitalism is really really bad.
I don’t understand why people demand unquestioning obedience from kids
A: Understanding why means they can extrapolate and anticipate how other shit works.
B: Teaching them authority is infallible is a great way to make sure they never solve a problem creatively or make anything better.
C: It teaches them to see you as perfect and omnipotent which is a high tower to fall off of. Why are you so scared to say you don’t know? I’m really looking forward to having relationships with my children as a complex and fallible human being who loves the hell out of them and would do anything for them, but still fundamentally a human being with wants and needs and drives beyond parenting.
Cause like public school’s are terrible here and give crappy education intended to teach you how to be a non-self starting drone, the buildings are unhealthy, their social studies programs are bourgeois propaganda, and start too early in the day and damage their tiny brains.
And private schools are unaffordable to me, put them in with the bourgeois, prepares them for a life as a member of the bourgeois or the moyenne-bourgeois and teaches them at best bourgeois pseudo-leftist and at worst essentially aristocratic ideas.
And homeschooling is often… well it leaves them undersocialized, poorly prepared to participate in society and yeah.
I want there to be like a non-hippie-dippy collectively run free school that teaches children to take initiative, and think independently and is steeped in working class, mutual aid praxis, but also teaches them the skills to be “respectable” and navigate bourgeois society when needed. One of the classes I think would be super useful is code switching.
Okay, I don’t get hating kids, but to be fair I also don’t get loving kids, because they’re just short people with shitty motor skills. They’re individuals, some are cool, some are boring, some of them are shitty little monsters. It’s like hating people between the ages of 32 and 35, a blanket feeling about people based on age is weird to me.
Like not wanting to be around babies who are wildly unpredictable and nearly always messy, I get, but like active dislike is weird.
If boys need “boy” toys and girls need “girl” toys, like… how did society ever manage when kids were making do with unlabeled rocks and sticks that distinctly did not come in conveniently color coded pink and blue?
I hope my future kids think I’m super glamorous and beautiful, but also really kind and generous, and that they’re proud to introduce their friends to me and that our house is the one that all their friends like visiting best, and that I did my best, and that I’m funny, and that I’ll always always do anything I can to help and protect them.
Because teenagers look like children to me at this point, like I saw a 17 year old the other day and was like “Wait is that what a 17 year old looks like, I thought she was 12?” and so you know how when a toddler is wearing a miniskirt or whatever and they’re just adorable with their little pudgy baby legs?
Yeah, it’s like that, I just want to pinch your cheeks.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 