I had a fascinating conversation with Jan Jekielek about the roots of the gender industry and how young vulnerable people are falling into a false promise
That was so good. I’m sitting here nodding a long. One of the things I have been thinking about is just how important childhood is for learning to cope with the vicissitudes of life. I think there are two parts to the problem we face today.
The first is that parents have had it drummed into them that every disappointment and every slight stays with children and necessarily leads to a lack of confidence or other negative things in adulthood. They are afraid of being blamed because their child’s childhood wasn’t perfect.
The other side of it is that those years actually are really important, but not because they write negative things on our souls with permanent marker. It’s because, contrary to what adults understand now, the stakes are incredibly LOW for any one challenging incident. We are more able to bounce back from set backs, and we are actively engaged in learning from these experiences in a way that adults just aren’t.
Childhood is a treasure trove of experiences, we’ll come back to again and again. They’ll change for us as we change, so maybe the worst experience turns out to be the best, the one that you learned the most from even if you don’t see it that way in hindsight and you’d rather not have had it to begin with.
I think that if parents understood, really understood, why it is so important for kids to have the space to have a childhood in which they can do this, they’d get behind it.
The sad thing is that so many parents today never had that childhood to begin with.
I couldn’t agree more. Childhood should give kids the opportunity to learn to face problems in the shallow water without many serious repercussions. Then the water gets a little deeper every year until they are finally able to swim on their own deep waters. I reckon some adults have had such bad childhoods that they become irrationally determined to ensure their kids “never suffer like they did”. And yet it’s incomparable. Their kids are not facing anything like the problems their parents have faced as kids.
Once again, your intelligent, educated and articulate explanations make a perfect argument for giving kids the space to grow and develop around life's ups and downs, and the journey through puberty. I can't understand how the captured mainstream media is still following the gender-woo line, which even the most basic critical thinking - not to mention mounting international evidence against paediatric gender medicine - can tear apart. I want everyone to hear you explain your "lived experience" and all you know from your work in this field.
And once again, thank you Stella, for being there for us parents.
That was so good. I’m sitting here nodding a long. One of the things I have been thinking about is just how important childhood is for learning to cope with the vicissitudes of life. I think there are two parts to the problem we face today.
The first is that parents have had it drummed into them that every disappointment and every slight stays with children and necessarily leads to a lack of confidence or other negative things in adulthood. They are afraid of being blamed because their child’s childhood wasn’t perfect.
The other side of it is that those years actually are really important, but not because they write negative things on our souls with permanent marker. It’s because, contrary to what adults understand now, the stakes are incredibly LOW for any one challenging incident. We are more able to bounce back from set backs, and we are actively engaged in learning from these experiences in a way that adults just aren’t.
Childhood is a treasure trove of experiences, we’ll come back to again and again. They’ll change for us as we change, so maybe the worst experience turns out to be the best, the one that you learned the most from even if you don’t see it that way in hindsight and you’d rather not have had it to begin with.
I think that if parents understood, really understood, why it is so important for kids to have the space to have a childhood in which they can do this, they’d get behind it.
The sad thing is that so many parents today never had that childhood to begin with.
I couldn’t agree more. Childhood should give kids the opportunity to learn to face problems in the shallow water without many serious repercussions. Then the water gets a little deeper every year until they are finally able to swim on their own deep waters. I reckon some adults have had such bad childhoods that they become irrationally determined to ensure their kids “never suffer like they did”. And yet it’s incomparable. Their kids are not facing anything like the problems their parents have faced as kids.
Once again, your intelligent, educated and articulate explanations make a perfect argument for giving kids the space to grow and develop around life's ups and downs, and the journey through puberty. I can't understand how the captured mainstream media is still following the gender-woo line, which even the most basic critical thinking - not to mention mounting international evidence against paediatric gender medicine - can tear apart. I want everyone to hear you explain your "lived experience" and all you know from your work in this field.
And once again, thank you Stella, for being there for us parents.
Thank you for your kind words, it’s lovely to read them