(Written, 8th Of October, 2001)
- After reading an article from a person who claims to be an expert on the matter of raising children, I cannot again do nothing else than to be amazed by all these so called studies on different subjects. Even the first sentence of this article bumps to me: "Children don't fit into our time". You can always find a problem and if there is none, then you can make a problem with different kind of theories.
- So this researcher has studied the games of a six year old children and has try to interpret them to reflect our modern time. In her opinion, in this modern time is included hesitating methods of raising children and obscuring the barrier between childhood and adulthood. The idea itself is great, but the question rises in my mind that can you really make sharp conclusions from children games? I think that we should let children play and no one should make conclusions from these games. The barrier between child and adult has been obscured, I agree on that, but the hesitating methods, come on now. You can't say that every parent has always raised their children in the same way, following the same pattern. There has been always parents, whose methods are more open minded than other parents methods.
- Next she attacks against parents going to work. Before this article, I had always presumed that many of the parents go to work so that they could provide everything for their children that they missed when they were a child. At least I know few parents who tell me that they want to give everything for their child, that they missed from their childhood. The harsh reality is, that you cannot survive in this world without money, maybe this researcher has forgotten this? She is also saying that parents enjoy to be at work more than they enjoy at being home. That truly sounds like a horrible idea, but I think it's true. Although now days the pressure at work is hard and many parent needs to do overtime almost purely for the fact that they can show that they are needed in their workplace. These modern type of jobs, where you hired only for a few months at a time, don't give you the pleasure to say that you would like to spend some time with your family or maybe you could a little bit shorter days.
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