AttackoftheSnakebear (@snakebear): "I suggest we put the kids to work in the coal mines to build character, or let them black shoes for a living on the street. If we are being all gilded age about it. Maybe they can be a drummer for the union during the Civil War, give them a red badge of courage."

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I suggest we put the kids to work in the coal mines to build character, or let them black shoes for a living on the street. If we are being all gilded age about it. Maybe they can be a drummer for the union during the Civil War, give them a red badge of courage.

M.A. Franklin

"Let kids be kids" is the most destructive sentence in modern parenting. Two reasons:

1. It assumes that being a kid means being useless. For most of history, boys apprenticed, trained, built, and served alongside men. Francis Austen, Jane Austen's brother, went to sea at thirteen and eventually became an admiral. He was also doing real w…

May 14

2:59 AM

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