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The subtweet after the controversy

It wasn't even about "cleaning up after yourself." The child resisted slightly to the teaching and Mr. Kaufman decided to turn it into a contest of wills, and to break the child's will as much as possible. It's not about chores, it's about enforcing submission, which is bad btw

It is very very close minded and shallow to assume that the ideas that revolve around how to deal with a Child's will are universal, yet everyone in this conversation appears to be doing just that. The fact of the matter is, the way you treat a child's will has been the main subject of nearly all cultural analysis of parenting for the past 600 years, and what have we learned from it? Nothing

The reason we have learned nothing is because ultimately you raise your children to adapt in a certain way to the world around them.

If you want your children to be meek, submission, and have anger issues, you "break their will", you do everything in your power to make them understand that someone is always 'above' them, and that their freedom always is at the hands of a superior.

This is the canonical parenting style of much of the Earth, because most of the Earth are composed of Slaves, Serfs, and Peasants. For them this parenting style protects them from the world. Raise them as an 'Aristocrat' or a 'Bourgeoise' with a guided or bended will (respectively) then you end up with a child who gets killed on his first day of farm labor for disobedience.

"Spare the rod, spoil the child", or rather, "If I don't beat you, the taskmaster will -kill- you, so this is my way of protecting you and understanding the gravity of not being submissive."

Yet, we are English speakers, we are part of the West, the "First World", there is no taskmaster that is going to beat you senseless, no teacher is going to whip you, you have -human rights-, and thus a child's will doesn't actually need to be broken for their own good anymore. It serves them no benefit. They are actively harmed by it being broken in an increasingly competitive zero-sum world where competitiveness and cunning are rewarded above all else, where the poorest become billionaires from sheer aura and swag alone.

The only benefit to breaking a child's will is to reinforce the behavior that makes their station and position in their class the most easily manageable and low maintenance.

So for the good of all the bourgeoise of our beautiful nation, remember; break the child's will, how else will these Starbucks baristas learn their fucking place? Only -you- can sabotage your family's class mobility.