You won’t believe which popular kids’ books are actually prejudiced against children
For centuries, most kids’ books reinforced messages that children are unimportant, incompetent and powerless. Children need to shape up and adopt adults? values. Children must change to fit into an adult world.
Today, it?s easy to recognize these books as ?childist.?
Fortunately more and more children?s books today provide a different set of messages?empowering ones. If you support, respect, encourage and even admire children, then you?ll want to give them books that help them thrive and meet their full potential. In other words, you?ll want to choose ?child-centered? books instead of ?childist? ones.
Lack of respect
Childism is prejudice against children. The concept of childism has been most fully developed by the psychoanalyst Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, who defines it as the belief that, based on their age, children as a category are less valuable and less capable than adults. This prejudice, resting on the assumption that adults and their needs are unquestionably superior to children and their needs, is widespread and damaging. It?s the root of all forms of child abuse. But Young-Bruehl also points out that childism is much more subtle than outright abuse. It is engrained in our attitudes?often on a subconscious level. You can believe that you ?love kids? while perpetuating (non-abusive) childist actions. Childism happens when we refuse to acknowledge children?s right to voice their opinions on matters that affect them. It happens when we fail to respect the validit...
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