Convenience Is Not Justification For Punishing Kids
Qualities that make children difficult to control are strengths, not disorders
To be clear
I am not suggesting that divergent neurotypes, developmental disorders, disabilities, etc., don’t exist— they certainly do.
I am also not saying that some of these qualities don’t make it difficult to support children, or perhaps make our lives more difficult, even while we simultaneously admire those traits.
What I am saying is that traditional parenting and schooling often view these as “problem” behaviours, for which children are routinely punished.
Yet the reason these qualities are problematic for adults is because they make our lives and our jobs more difficult.
Fellow adults, I hate to break it to you.
This would be an us problem, not a them problem.
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