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So what makes it politically incorrect to teach children parenting? How a parent can encourage, or hinder, a child. How babies and children learn, develop, respond. I’m talking about replicating in schools the natural development of parenting skills that used to happen in extended families and close communities. I don’t mean in a dry academic way, or by heavy-handed state interference. I mean using resources that already exist in abundance to introduce the value of family interaction and parenting.
In some primary schools, older children already help younger kids with reading, or mentor them to stop bullying. Why not make this universal? Encourage young mums to bring their babies into school, so children can learn to hold and cuddle. As children grow older, don’t confine life skills to avoiding unwanted pregnancies. Explain how to nurture those babies that one day they will want to have.
Or alternatively, why not stop removing three year olds from their families and putting them into groups with other three year olds. I can understand the need for an education system, but why not base it around small schools, multi ages. I’m thinking more a family environment, with facilitators and resources, children driving their own education instead of passively receiving. Yes, it’s more difficult on the teachers, but I think the benefits would be felt across society very quickly.
Which to be frank, is why no one wants to try it. Not particularly one for a conspiracy theory 😉 but it’s not in the interest of the ppl in charge to deconstruct society really, is it? They don’t want to change the status quo, which isn’t particularly to say that they want to keep ppl down, I think it’s more that they can’t really truly see what is wrong with what is going on. After all, it isn’t going wrong for them. It’s akin to the ppl who say ‘well I was smacked as a child and it never did me any harm’ or even better, the ones who know it wasn’t fun, but because they went through it, they want other ppl to go through it too.
Oh well. We just have to keep chipping away from the underneath 🙂
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