By: JAW

JAW
Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:47:21 +0000

In reply to Aussie Sue.

There is a book by Neil Postman that covers the start of childhood from the enlightenment when people started to learn to read which shone light on the differences between the ability to what an adult could learn and digest. This rose to clear boundaries between adult and child that prior to the literacy amongst the peoples was not there. By age 7 most children were living the life of adults prior to the enlightenment and parents didn’t have the affection for their offspring as we do now as they didn’t have the basic concept to care. He then goes on to the invention of tv and how since then the lines between adults and children have begun to blur again. Great book and he details it far better than I can. I believe it’s called “the disappearance of childhood” written a few decades ago but very in face more relevant today.