I post often about my kids, especially my toddler son Rampage (age 2.5). It’d be easy to imagine it’s all sunshine and playing with no discipline. I’m a huge advocate for affectionate fatherhood. But raising your children without firm discipline is abuse, not love. Thread/
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Love your children by disciplining them. Anything less is abuse and failure on your part and prepares them for a life of misery.
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You're touching on something I've noticed in my studies of 'premodern' cultures. Childhood, among the hunter-gatherer/early agrarian was not a set number of years. It was simply a status that changed to adult as individuals met certain social goalposts. Those goalpost then became
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Rites of passage- but at no point did the lesser status take away the responsibility the individual had to the larger family unit. If the family decided to spend the day gathering wood, everyone gathered wood, and carried a bundle home, although the bundle would reflect the
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