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You’re not that far off the mark, P. We arrived in London last week for a three month working holiday. This is great, we will definitely check it out with the kids. Thanks!
Such good timing! I hope you all like the exhibit.
Penelope
Have fun!
I already have so few rules to begin with. We are pretty much non-conformists and my kids don’t even know a box exists to know whether they are in or out of it!
So I guess it makes sense that my gen z kids will be rule followers.
It would be easy to throw my hands up after reading this post, “What’s the point?! Our kids are products of things outside our control! So why do what we do?”
Maybe I’m too much of an idealist, or maybe I’m just naive, but I believe it’s possible to help my kid learn from my life lessons. Ok. Sure. Societal trends are cyclical. But on the micro-scale of our life, I believe in progress.
Maybe progress needs the pendulum swing of rule-breakers & rule-makers. Maybe the rules aren’t the real issue. Rules don’t have to be the enemy, they can just be a bad tool in the wrong hands.
Or rules could become a good tool in our children’s hands.
I love me a good rule! Like don’t talk to people before they have coffee, right after they come home from work, DO NOT have loud tv when I come home from work because it’s like I’m about to have a seizure (obviously I don’t unwind that great. So yay for my new 15 minute commute rather than 7).
It’s the crazy extreme of rules that suffocate people and lose the heart of the issue that bothers me. Like you said. There’s a reason the rule was made. Most of the time is for the benefit of the public. Sometimes they aren’t.
But it’s wjen people focus on the rule only and not the principle of the matter that we lose something important.
We live about 1/4 of a mile from the V&A Museum which happens to be next to the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum here in London. They are all free and we’ve been to them a number of times. HOWEVER, they are all shrines to Big Government and rife and with the latest agitprop. Of course it’s all still a learning opportunity for my homeschooled brood….but perhaps not exactly the one intended.
What do you mean by “agitprop”? I want to know more!
And weird, now I have to picture your face with an accent.
Well, homeschooling is about encouraging, helping a kid to develop his own potential, talents, capabilities etc. J’ai bien compris? So one of the major societal rules is already broken from the start. Non? From this disobedient basis: in the process of developing my own talents, I can and should break some rules or on the contrary I should follow some rules … But mainly I suppose I don’t care (a/ because of the starting point) (b/ because I even don’t think about it). Non? So as a parent do I need to teach etc. Je ne pense pas. I focus on my kid and its talents. Non?
Thanks, I’m in London and will check out the exhibit. This is a difficult area for me as I grew up aspiring to conform and fit in. Now I’ve started homeschooling (and growing an afro) I’m feeling like Albert Camus’ L’Etranger – which I didn’t even get. I never got Catcher in the Rye either. This exhibit I hope will inspire me.
Great post! I agree with you on all counts. Kids SHOULD find a balance between abiding and breaking rules. The Oscar Wilde quote blew me away. I have always tried to live by the rules, I regret it sometimes. An eye-opener for me indeed!