Writing an essay on all the points at which we’re socially conditioned to fail children — to give them up too early so we can get back to work, to cling to them at just when they need to start moving away from us, right on up to the higher ed debt trap... it’s overwhelmingly sad.
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(The greatest joy for me recently was when I was asked to join a weekend Hackathon by a student... she felt bad about asking for my weekend time, and she was not explicitly asking me to chaperone — just be there. I was thrilled. And the kids built amazing stuff.)
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If I can brag about my kiddos a bit: one of them built a bizarre game in BASH. Another used Google Sheets to make a turn-based fighting game. Another student saw that, and recreated tic-tac-toe and rock-paper-scissors in Sheets. These kids are on
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There's interest from
@clairlemon for@QuilletteM, and I think this piece will be very much aligned with their mission toward freethought — so I suggest following now, if you haven't :)Show this thread
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As a former child with very vivid memories of how I was wronged and mistreated, I co-sign all of this
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I’m looking forward to reading your essay. However I’m torn - the experience of having kids yourself will likely dramatically change how you think about them. It’s easy for people w/o kids to see how parents should be different. The lived experience of parenthood is.. eye opening
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What do you do with kids atm? I feel like tech + kids would be absolute bliss.
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