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This post really rubs me the wrong way.

First, I don't like strangers telling me how I should spend my time or live my life.

Second, I had to manage without adults "investing in me" and I think today's children can do the same.

Third, what leads you think the average adult has anything worth sharing with children, anyway?

Finally, do you honestly think that after working 40+ hours a week most people have the time, energy, or inclination to invest in kids who aren't their own?

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

This post really rubs me the wrong way.

Would it rub you even more wrongly reading me admit I'm taking that as evidence of success?

First, I don't like strangers telling me how I should spend my time or live my life.

Yes, I'm familiar with the notion of 'ego'. (Hence my ridiculously unnecessary/obnoxious first sentence worth of response.)

But*, it turns out your replying feels like the possibility of us at least getting past the "strangers" part.

And* I'm actually rather giddy about the prospect. The internet has been a mostly dismal place for me (I admit that could be mostly my fault, but.. still do I wonder...), so I'm always happy to encounter honest intelligence.

Second, I had to manage without adults "investing in me" and I think today's children can do the same.

I'm not impressed with the phrase "had to manage". I believe you should have had it better, and *might* have if more adults had read - and acted upon - a post like the one rubbing you the wrong way before having interacted with you.

Third, what leads you think the average adult has anything worth sharing with children, anyway?

Excellent point.

One thing does come to mind, though: manifesting a level of caring/interest/listening that builds trust in children that maybe at least one adult has more to offer than the nothingness the child is used to from other adults. The fact that someone is listening at all counts given it's obviously easy for a child to experience far less than that.

Finally, do you honestly think that after working 40+ hours a week most people have the time, energy, or inclination to invest in kids who aren't their own?

I do. The proof of it is exchanges like this online, which likely aren't benefitting anyone. Yet we both wasted time engaging in it. We'd have both done greater service to the species doing the bare mininum (i.e. that "manifesting a level of caring/interest/listining" (above)) than this screen hypnosis bullshit.

(Oh dang... no idea why the formatting came out so weird, but I'm drunk off my ass and don't have time to dick with it because I need to get refocused on what to do with my classroom kids tomorrow.....)