I've made a decision recently, to soon begin the writing of children's stories. Do I want to publish them? No. Do I want to not publish them? Not necessarily. What are they for then? In the event that I find myself some day with a child to care for, I want to have stories for them that will give them what they need to grow up in our world.
I figure, so many people today have such little time to care for their children. Work tends to be the cause. We work so much, and have so little time to spend with the children themselves. Am I going to be an exception to this tendency for adults to have time for their children? Probably not. So what does that leave me in terms of options? Well, while I'm still young irresponsible, and have few responsibilities, I might as well get to building the things that will ease parenthood: essentially make the things that I will one day not have the time to make.
But let's get this straight, I'm not just creating stories here. My intentions are fully to do my best in engineering the growth of a human being. Just as we are all products of our environments, I wish to construct stories meant to infuse the best possible values into the child's understanding of the world. It happens all the time with a popular book called The Bible. Basically a compilation of events arranged to set the grounds for morality into the people who believe/read it.
I don't know how successful this idea will be, but I'm only going to do my best, and hope for the rest. As soon as I finish writing my other "short" I'm gonna embark on this project.
Many Nights DTC,
Addison
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Addison! You plan to reproduce!!! NOoooOOoooOoOoOOooOooo!!!!! J/k
ReplyDeleteI think spending time at work instead of with children is something that has always happened. My Professor of 60 something told me she was a "Latch Key Kid" growing up. She went on to say that children like her were not uncommon. Maybe that is only true for were she grew up but I think it was probably just as common or even more common to leave children at home alone. Hell, they use to say it's fine to smack your child around.
Spare the rod and spoil the child!
The Latchkey kid is, I think, one cause of many problems we face today. I wouldn't be surprised if it was even encouraged as perfectly normal, as it meant business could thrive when parents worked more.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure to a degree it's "always" happened, but that doesn't make it right, nor does that mean it's always had the same impact. It's time to stop this practice.