Incredible article Miri! I actually liked school but can relate to the early trauma part. Also I was astonished to realize maybe being awake/information junkies runs in my family. My grandfather almost always had a newspaper in his hand.
As to your article, brilliant and insightful and one of your best imho. One thing I’ll add is unfortunately there are so many sick children especially with autism or special needs and if more severe often leads to divorce. I can’t tell you how many women in caregiver groups mention as an aside that they’re single mothers to an autistic or special needs child on top of taking care of 1-2 sick parents maybe with dementia. Completely difficult and impossible situation for women.
Thank you, Anon, and yes, that's a very good point - there's a sense that children of today aren't as robust as they were just one generation ago, and where it once would have been normal for children of seven or eight to walk to school alone or get the bus with friends (hence no need for breakfast club), that's no longer the case and children appear to require much more intensive adult supervision. In some instances, this may just be parents being overly-cautious, but in many it's because children today really are more fragile, for the reasons you state, which does indeed put extraordinary pressure on families (apparently 80% of marriages don't survive a vaccine injured child). Add elderly parents with health conditions into the equation and as you say, many women are in impossible positions and cannot get by without state help.
Yes, breastfeeding and the precursers of all things pregnancy, labour & delivery which makes women so afraid of giving birth, the great majority of clear thinking mothers choose to bypass the natural procedure for a synthetic one on the basis of it being safer for the baby, of course. And with it, for the greater part, bypassing the bonding hormones, the immune building bacteria for the baby and the natural lactating hormones. Which produces a very sore and drugged mom and baby who will probably go on to formula and daycare. And many, many doctor’s appointments.
Thanks for the Catto recommendation, a must read for all parents Miri, I agree with much of what he has to say, through his eyes the future looks brighter.
Sadly the U.K. government is a uniquely disgusting confection when it comes its own population. Unlike countries like Japan and Denmark where raising children is seen as a benefit to their nations, worthy of substantial investment in their upbringing including the material support to mothers, the U.K. has a long tradition of seeing children and mothers as a burden on the economy.
Our public purse should be harnessed to proved every child with access to the very best learning, growth and development opportunities, for each one as Catto says “is a genius” and so we’re all the worse off for increasing warehousing of our infants, children and elders.
Will there ever be a time when trust and common sense prevails here? How can we protect our children from their ‘meat and soul grinder’?
Thanks Hollando, I think the very best thing parents can do is try and connect with other like-minded families, supporting each other to move as far away from state "help" for their children as they can. There are various initiatives helping to connect families in this way and it does seem they're becoming more and more popular, so we live in hope!
A question (into the wind…): how many of John Taylor Gatto’s arguments apply to schools (government / private) in Europe?
And for bonus points: how many apply to the system in Switzerland (which always seems cream of the top of everything unless one is in situ for too long).
My old grandmother, on my mums side, used to say: children should be drowned at birth. And I absolutely got it, even as a young nipper myself; who hung out with her, after school, ostensibly, to eat her freshly baked pancakes, and the irresistible treacle scones, barely out of the oven; thick with slightly salted Scottish butter.
… Bliss.!! Refuge from the wretched barbarism and witchcraft; that was primary four. Neither of us really got screaming babies, and the awful impending years full of pain, and inability to communicate with said infant. And by the time these foam at the mouth little ankle biters got around to telling you what the problem is - around 3 and a half to four years old; and asking the most ridiculously absurd questions, before you can reach for the Calpol, the state child-catcher has got them, and their off to the asylum to be drained of any modicum of intelligence and humour.
And just when you thought it was safe to kick back and get a bottle of red wine down your neck, while savouring a couple of classic black and white French gangster movies; you can’t help but realise that the assault on the little ingrates is relentless: in the form of all the muck and medical junk that is thrown down their throats; pharma cocktails, and voodoo juice, allopathic jibby-jabbies etc. etc…
NHS is the next institution to get their claws in. More state sponsored shenanigans. Making people sick for a living, and wholly dependent on the White coats for our ‘health’ - physical, and even more lucrative; mental and psychological. Hundreds of mental health disorders, for the young ‘uns. There’s a deeply disturbing and dark poetry about the whole deceitful shebang.
Sometimes you just gotta stand back and admire the whole grotesque nightmare, playing out in front of your eyes. And more incredulously; the others on this flat earth, who refuse to believe that anything is even remotely wrong. Utterly formidable..
If that assault course for the Young nonchalantly inclined isn’t enough, then step forward; The TV companies: more nudging; gaslighting; dark psychological advertising, needing shit you don’t actually need; a veritable double whammy here; because we have to include ‘anti-social media’ too. Half a dozen accounts on the sick and bent, twisted out of shape silicone valley/digital/bandwagon of censorship, gaslighting info-gathering/big-time corralling and propagandist bullshit… All aboard. Tickets please.
And if that still ain’t enough for the little ol’ sweethearts we’ve sweated and fretted over, then there’s endless pantomimes being played out in front of our very eyes. Zelensky, Trump, Vance; performing a sketch from the Simpsons/Southpark, that hasn’t even been written yet….
… It’s laughable; there are sycophantic commentators writing articles and doing vids about how real it is. I’m like: WTAF.? A decade or so ago, Zelenskyy and an old vaudevillian friend were on a variety show in Ukraine: playing the piano with their penises. Nothings really changed in politics, has it.?
And education mustn’t be confused with intelligence.
YES. I was a publicly schooled latchkey kid and once my maternal instinct finally kicked in in my late 20's, we made every sacrifice that would allow me to stay home with our daughters (I brought home 60% of our household income at the time) and then we realized we MUST homeschool. It was very challenging... as parenting is. It surprises me just how asleep parents (especially mothers) are to the desires of the state to get ahold of our children. I wish more people could connect these dots and see it plainly for what it really is.
Incredible article Miri! I actually liked school but can relate to the early trauma part. Also I was astonished to realize maybe being awake/information junkies runs in my family. My grandfather almost always had a newspaper in his hand.
As to your article, brilliant and insightful and one of your best imho. One thing I’ll add is unfortunately there are so many sick children especially with autism or special needs and if more severe often leads to divorce. I can’t tell you how many women in caregiver groups mention as an aside that they’re single mothers to an autistic or special needs child on top of taking care of 1-2 sick parents maybe with dementia. Completely difficult and impossible situation for women.
Thank you, Anon, and yes, that's a very good point - there's a sense that children of today aren't as robust as they were just one generation ago, and where it once would have been normal for children of seven or eight to walk to school alone or get the bus with friends (hence no need for breakfast club), that's no longer the case and children appear to require much more intensive adult supervision. In some instances, this may just be parents being overly-cautious, but in many it's because children today really are more fragile, for the reasons you state, which does indeed put extraordinary pressure on families (apparently 80% of marriages don't survive a vaccine injured child). Add elderly parents with health conditions into the equation and as you say, many women are in impossible positions and cannot get by without state help.
Yeah, The Breakfast Club was a good film - John Hugues' films usually were.
You left out one important aspect in your article: breastfeeding.
Edit: I did, and still do, *hate* school.
Yes, breastfeeding and the precursers of all things pregnancy, labour & delivery which makes women so afraid of giving birth, the great majority of clear thinking mothers choose to bypass the natural procedure for a synthetic one on the basis of it being safer for the baby, of course. And with it, for the greater part, bypassing the bonding hormones, the immune building bacteria for the baby and the natural lactating hormones. Which produces a very sore and drugged mom and baby who will probably go on to formula and daycare. And many, many doctor’s appointments.
Thanks for the Catto recommendation, a must read for all parents Miri, I agree with much of what he has to say, through his eyes the future looks brighter.
Sadly the U.K. government is a uniquely disgusting confection when it comes its own population. Unlike countries like Japan and Denmark where raising children is seen as a benefit to their nations, worthy of substantial investment in their upbringing including the material support to mothers, the U.K. has a long tradition of seeing children and mothers as a burden on the economy.
Our public purse should be harnessed to proved every child with access to the very best learning, growth and development opportunities, for each one as Catto says “is a genius” and so we’re all the worse off for increasing warehousing of our infants, children and elders.
Will there ever be a time when trust and common sense prevails here? How can we protect our children from their ‘meat and soul grinder’?
Thanks Hollando, I think the very best thing parents can do is try and connect with other like-minded families, supporting each other to move as far away from state "help" for their children as they can. There are various initiatives helping to connect families in this way and it does seem they're becoming more and more popular, so we live in hope!
I also hated school. I fantasised about leaving at age 16 but that was never going to be an option in my family in the early 90s.
A question (into the wind…): how many of John Taylor Gatto’s arguments apply to schools (government / private) in Europe?
And for bonus points: how many apply to the system in Switzerland (which always seems cream of the top of everything unless one is in situ for too long).
My old grandmother, on my mums side, used to say: children should be drowned at birth. And I absolutely got it, even as a young nipper myself; who hung out with her, after school, ostensibly, to eat her freshly baked pancakes, and the irresistible treacle scones, barely out of the oven; thick with slightly salted Scottish butter.
… Bliss.!! Refuge from the wretched barbarism and witchcraft; that was primary four. Neither of us really got screaming babies, and the awful impending years full of pain, and inability to communicate with said infant. And by the time these foam at the mouth little ankle biters got around to telling you what the problem is - around 3 and a half to four years old; and asking the most ridiculously absurd questions, before you can reach for the Calpol, the state child-catcher has got them, and their off to the asylum to be drained of any modicum of intelligence and humour.
And just when you thought it was safe to kick back and get a bottle of red wine down your neck, while savouring a couple of classic black and white French gangster movies; you can’t help but realise that the assault on the little ingrates is relentless: in the form of all the muck and medical junk that is thrown down their throats; pharma cocktails, and voodoo juice, allopathic jibby-jabbies etc. etc…
NHS is the next institution to get their claws in. More state sponsored shenanigans. Making people sick for a living, and wholly dependent on the White coats for our ‘health’ - physical, and even more lucrative; mental and psychological. Hundreds of mental health disorders, for the young ‘uns. There’s a deeply disturbing and dark poetry about the whole deceitful shebang.
Sometimes you just gotta stand back and admire the whole grotesque nightmare, playing out in front of your eyes. And more incredulously; the others on this flat earth, who refuse to believe that anything is even remotely wrong. Utterly formidable..
If that assault course for the Young nonchalantly inclined isn’t enough, then step forward; The TV companies: more nudging; gaslighting; dark psychological advertising, needing shit you don’t actually need; a veritable double whammy here; because we have to include ‘anti-social media’ too. Half a dozen accounts on the sick and bent, twisted out of shape silicone valley/digital/bandwagon of censorship, gaslighting info-gathering/big-time corralling and propagandist bullshit… All aboard. Tickets please.
And if that still ain’t enough for the little ol’ sweethearts we’ve sweated and fretted over, then there’s endless pantomimes being played out in front of our very eyes. Zelensky, Trump, Vance; performing a sketch from the Simpsons/Southpark, that hasn’t even been written yet….
… It’s laughable; there are sycophantic commentators writing articles and doing vids about how real it is. I’m like: WTAF.? A decade or so ago, Zelenskyy and an old vaudevillian friend were on a variety show in Ukraine: playing the piano with their penises. Nothings really changed in politics, has it.?
And education mustn’t be confused with intelligence.
Hot treacle scones for breakfast. Anyone ?!!
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YES. I was a publicly schooled latchkey kid and once my maternal instinct finally kicked in in my late 20's, we made every sacrifice that would allow me to stay home with our daughters (I brought home 60% of our household income at the time) and then we realized we MUST homeschool. It was very challenging... as parenting is. It surprises me just how asleep parents (especially mothers) are to the desires of the state to get ahold of our children. I wish more people could connect these dots and see it plainly for what it really is.