Glorification of childhood can be found often. Usually the argument goes something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt was so great to be a child! No responsibilities, no taxes, no health concerns. School is much more pleasant than work. So much free time. Just playing and having fun!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Parts of this can be challenged on factual level (free time, school more pleasant), but I won\u2019t even go that route. Unpacking this would be a waste of time.
Any phase in life has pros and cons. What is so stupid about this way of childhood glorification is comparing the downsides of adulthood with the upsides of childhood while leaving the opposite parts out. Still the majority buys that and looks back to their own time as a minor with rose-colored glasses. Excessive nostalgia casts a distorting veil of self-deception over the memories of such clowns who oversimplify everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwilight Zone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When watching Rod Serling\u2019s Twilight Zone (yes, I typed a capital W at first because of muscle memory recalling TWilight Menu++) I had to switch off the TV and think a lot after the episode \u201cThe Incredible World of Horace Ford\u201d. A great story showing the problem visually. The childish and somewhat brilliant (but unworldly) toy designer Horace Ford not only glorifies his childhood but took \u201cKeep your inner child forever\u201d to the extreme. In the end he gets confronted with the obvious reality I mentioned above: any phase in life has pros and cons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twilight Zone is TV entertainment. It is a series with elements from fantasy, science fiction and horror. It\u2019s certainly not high literature, but a few episodes shine and go surprisingly deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right of Self-determination + Insignificant Problems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A)I myself aren\u2019t a representative example. I\u2019m completely shielded from any nostalgia-dimmed look on my youth because it was hell. Getting tortured and almost killed with psycho-drugs isn\u2019t the average youth. What can be taken from the story of my own life is the underlying cause for the torture: minors are dependent on decisions made by others. They aren\u2019t allowed to decide for themselves, \u201cfor their own good\u201d. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The power imbalance between minors and adults should really be obvious to anyone. But this is one of the issues that tends to be overlooked when people look at things through their rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. Maybe this is a case of\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIT\u2019S A SECRET<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TO EVERYBODY.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\u2026and I just spilled the beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
B) Sinchen is a peaceful old girl. I detest physical violence. But in my head, in my thoughts, I sometimes feel a tingling sensation. The urge to wipe that smug, condescending, stupid grin\u2014the one that spreads across the faces of many adults when they dismiss a child\u2019s or teenager\u2019s problems as trivial\u2014with a Falcon Punch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it\u2019s heartbreak, or fear of something or someone at school, a fight with your best friend\u2014none of it is recognized as important. \u201cGrow up first! Then you\u2019ll learn what real problems are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if some of an eight-year-old\u2019s problems seem unimportant to an adult\u2014and may even be objectively so\u2014for a developing personality lacking coping mechanisms, these problems are real, intense, and seemingly insurmountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your child is counting on your help, on your guidance for coping strategies\u2026 and gets a condescending smirk and a snide remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I said, I\u2019m absolutely peaceful, but when I see and hear that, I hear in my head: \u201cFALCON\u2026 PUNCH!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Glorification of childhood can be found often. Usually the argument goes something like this: It was so great to be a child! No responsibilities, no taxes, no health concerns. School is much more pleasant than work. So much free time. Just playing and having fun!\u201d Parts of this can be challenged on factual level (free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stuff","tag-childhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kleinessinchen.feralnetworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}