When 'basic social norms' include "Shut up, kid", we're sick. Silencing children who are learning to speak is like making a bonsai tree out of their cognitive and emotional capacities.
Adults make way for children. Not the other way around. When it's the other way around, the grown-ups SUCK.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:53 pm (UTC)When 'basic social norms' include "Shut up, kid", we're sick. Silencing children who are learning to speak is like making a bonsai tree out of their cognitive and emotional capacities.
Adults make way for children. Not the other way around. When it's the other way around, the grown-ups SUCK.