starting to suspect that in a functional human community kids should mostly be being taken care of by older kids
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meh, I don't actually agree with that. taking care of young kids is a lot of effort, and teens are both in need of their own social development and also just aren't responsible enough (and if they are, something went wrong)
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I think kids that are interested in helping take care of other kids should have the chance to do so. But even without school, there's so much knowledge out there, and teenage years are kind of a hormonal mess, and teens don't have good judgement yet. Let them explore & be sneaky
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i honestly don't buy this. i think a lot of the cultural conception of teenagers (especially the bit about "hormones") is an artifact of how powerless we make them and that they would shape up tremendously if given appropriate amounts of power and responsibility
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("hormones" is a thought-terminating cliche for invalidating teenage experiences / feelings / wants and honestly i am not here for it)