Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Yeaaaaah... I don't think you have to give 4-year-olds lifelong recollections of their own inadequacy in order to have top-notch programmers

Kids have unpleasant emotions all the time. Growing up is super hard, and they'll run into terrible constraints all the time. That's not the problem; the problem is that forcing kids to "learn" runs a high risk of generating aversions that we don't actually know how to correct

I think it's a terrible idea to force a kid to read — ever. Nearly all kids love stories & if read to will eventually demand some control by forcing The Adult to reveal what's going on there. The risk of brute-forcing it is creating a lifelong non-reader. Horrifying.

I agree with this risk but I think there is some risk with not forcing a kid to learn reading too. There will be some kids that just won’t. I’m dyslexic and went undiagnosed for the first 20 years of my life. I’m still trying to grasp and overcome the effects.

Think there’s a balance here though. Mason is onto something for sure. Maybe I needed to be forced to learn reading but not forced to read once I did learn. The pressure of reading x amount was fucked for me. Now I’m learning to read what I enjoy even if it’s at a snail’s pace.