Could we allow the child to socialize with other children and people in the community?
NO! I must keep the child under my own power, inside the confines of my property, at all times. This is my right as a parent to make all the choices and steering decisions. If it runs me out of mental resources, so be it.
I swear, capitalist ideology is a crime against children worldwide.
By 5 I was already hanging out on the block or with kids down the street. Preschool, crêche… It’s pretty universal and you can realize this if you paper over the assumptions that atomized/individualistic/neoliberal culture teaches you. Only in the past 50 years or so have we really hardened around the idea that instead of existing in the village unit, children ought to exist mostly in the nuclear family unit and the single-owner property associated with it. And this leaves children much more prone to having stunted development.
Could we allow the child to socialize with other children and people in the community?
NO! I must keep the child under my own power, inside the confines of my property, at all times. This is my right as a parent to make all the choices and steering decisions. If it runs me out of mental resources, so be it.
I swear, capitalist ideology is a crime against children worldwide.
I mean, 4 is a little young to be out and about socializing while mom or dad is at home doing other things.
By 5 I was already hanging out on the block or with kids down the street. Preschool, crêche… It’s pretty universal and you can realize this if you paper over the assumptions that atomized/individualistic/neoliberal culture teaches you. Only in the past 50 years or so have we really hardened around the idea that instead of existing in the village unit, children ought to exist mostly in the nuclear family unit and the single-owner property associated with it. And this leaves children much more prone to having stunted development.