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me and my boyfriend in style of royal guards from deltarune. we are visiting Hometown for the festival

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The biggest bullshit with Adultism is basically that the people will defend it with: "Well, if we did not force X on kids, kids would not do it, because they hate X."

And then you actually look onto the research.

Kids do not generally hate learning or school. Quite the opposite. Children tend to enjoy learning and are naturally curious. It is exactly the fact that they are forced into school and into the rigid structure of it that often punishes curiosity but also is hostile towards the differences inherent in people, that kids hate it.

Kids do not naturally hate medical care. While medical care is scary at times, the fear usually comes from medical care scenarios being defined by adults overriding a child's agency, not explaining things to him, and otherwise being abusive, that makes children afraid of medical procedures. Additionally the way a lot of medical procedures go hand in hand with denying a child's reality ("Look, it is not that bad") tends to be traumatizing to children.

There have been studies done in this. If you explain a child - even a toddler - what you do and why, children will generally be a lot more okay with stuff like needles and simple procedures, and will even agree to necessary surgical interventions.

If you create a learning environment that allows more for self-directed learning, and involves less specific testing, most kids actually will enjoy learning.

The way kids hate school, and are afraid of doctors is the result of those interactions being associated with violence and coercion. The hatred is because of the coercion, rather than the hatred making the coercion necessary.

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To be more precise, kids are always learning. Therefore, you must pay attention to what it is that they are learning. The idea that learning only happens during school hours is ridiculous bullshit, as silly as the idea that learning is a process in which a teacher transmits knowledge straight into a student's head. Humans are by design curious and persistent creatures, as well as social and cooperative creatures, and left to their own devices, will generally occupy themselves creatively solving problems.

We have this mistaken idea that the purpose of school is to teach academic skills, but that's not what it was designed for. Its purpose is to teach kids how to be citizens, and it uses academic subjects as the structure to teach those skills. Public school systems (especially in the US) were started and reformed, over and over again, by people who already had those academic skills, and did not want their nice lives to be troubled by the hoi polloi. But naturally they couldn't say that, so instead they talked about the need to have an educated populace. Only over time, so many people have learned to believe the stated goal instead of the unstated one, even the people who are running the systems, that we have come to think that you have to go to school to learn things, that the learning stops when you leave school, and that there are right ways and wrong ways to learn, as well as right ways and wrong ways to organize learning structures. All incorrect.

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