taurusingemini posted: " The upbringing of the child, how do we, train our kids, what goals do we want our kids to attain in school, to excel, to become, one of the, elites, placing them in private schools, or, do we, want them to, encounter, people who are like, and unlike them"
The upbringing of the child, how do we, train our kids, what goals do we want our kids to attain in school, to excel, to become, one of the, elites, placing them in private schools, or, do we, want them to, encounter, people who are like, and unlike themselves, so they can, gain a wider perspective of, the world, to learn that there are, others who are, different than them? Points to consider, when selecting what sort of schools to place your children in, private, public, etc., etc., etc., translated…
I'd seen on T.V. that there were Chinese rich parents who'd, thrown down wads of cash to celebrate their children's birthdays, turning the girls into, princesses, the boys, into, princes, with the parents, dressed up to the nines, surprising all the guests who were, invited. From before, I'd seen on the news, that a seven-year-old Filipino girl, dressed in that custom-made present, with a crown on her head, with the full-service banquets, and fireworks on display.
There are friends in my circle, who, for the sake of their children's, "only childhoods", wrecked their brains on the celebration means every year, put on that large party for them. Other than inviting the kids' friends, also, showed everybody else, how they'd, cherished, the only childhoods of their own, young.
Actually, every moment of life is the only, childhood is deemed as innocent, naïve, and only happens once, but, when did these, childhood birthday parties came into being in Taiwan?
I was just past forty, recalled how there was the McDonald's commercials on T.V. Back then, the shop was up to rent, and the character will bring tons of presents to the child, with the burgers, fries, the cokes, the happy meals.
illustration from UDN.com
That was in the eighties, a lot of the parents had, weathered through the poverties of post-war, and, as the U.S. gave the aids, the economy started, looking, up. The government encouraged selling the items internationally, and, gave us the newer concepts of childrearing too. The older generations will never host these grand celebrations for their kids on their birthdays, but the American ways believed, that we need to, toss down a whole lot of money on the kids, not expecting, nor demanding anything in return, and this concept had, rooted, downward in us.
And yet, based off of the economics sociologist, Zelizer, "Pricing the Priceless Child", we can find, that the children now are seen, as, "little angels" and viewed as, "idols" in their existence, naïve, with complete dependence, this is, unique to modern day society only.
From a study of a sample of thirty families in Los Angeles, no single child would take responsibilities on her/his own for the family's chores. Normally, the parents had to plead, and ask (and usually failed at), but in the end, the parents can only, start doing all these chores like the maids do. Modern day society, like the anthropologist, Tam Ramsay stated, "infants rule", the children didn't have any freedom, but they could, get whatever they wanted, they asked, of their, parents, without, any of the, related responsibilities.
In "Anthropology of Childhood" there are massive amounts of data collected which showed that we are now, living in a world where, "Children ranked supreme", believing in their innocence, encouraging the younger generations to express themselves, and, do our bests, to, satisfy all their needs and wants, and this reflected on the collective society's ideals of the natures of innocence of young children. And besides, this society became, the projections of individual families' tastes and value systems, becoming, a duplicate of the caste systems, and makes the gaps between the varied levels of socioeconomic statuses hard to understand one another, with the difficulties of, communicating with each other.
My son is in the first-grade now, I'd originally wanted to send him to private school, but thinking back to my own younger years, being enrolled in the nearby public elementary schools, he will get a chance to encounter children from various socioeconomic statuses, various backgrounds too, that was, what I believe to be, "normal" experiences for a child, to help him adapt and live along with people of an assortment of, backgrounds, to understand each of his classmates' personality traits, likes, and dislikes, instead of getting to know his classmates, by how much money their families have.
And so, this, is on the socialization of the child, do we want our kids to be elites, is that why we're, placing them in those, high-end, higher-quality, private schools from preschool on up, by making sure, that they excelled in the academia, or, do we want them to, get interactive, with, an assortments of, various children from the varied backgrounds, from blue collar families, to white collar families, that, is the question to be, considered here.
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