SwimExpert
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- Nov 26, 2013
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I think the notion of children's "innocence" is largely bullshit.
We never hid the world from our kid.
Beyond that, the problem with the idea of children's "innocence" is that it can only exist if adults are defined as guilty. That is the problem. It's built upon the notion that people are inherently evil, and persists on nothing more than our own vanity as we attempt to idealize our children. Hence the "Oh no, not my child; my child is a perfect little angel; it must have been your child who was in the wrong" phenomenon.