No debate on anything you've posted AND I would say that children perceive and receive differently than the adults. My daughter's response to mask wearing when this all started---? "Cool! We all get to pretend we're playing doctor!" She thought it was silly and funny. No fear. No worry. We don't talk about COVID being bad or complain about the the things we can't do because of it. We talk about it as a passing part of my life. We talk about the new or different things we've learned or have gotten to try. I can't shield her from the other messages out there but I can say she's experiencing this as another curiosity of life. <3
Great points/illustrations/food for thought, Danielle, thanks for this. : )
Seems similar with other aspects of culture; kids will more or less just go along with whatever is presented and trust the adults, assuming this is just 'how life is.' "Fish can't see water," as they say.
And yet the cultural conditioning does utterly shape a child's most foundational beliefs / ways of seeing life and the world. So even if a lot of kids just kinda go along with the masking, it doesn't mean it isn't having a deep and powerful effect on them / their beliefs / their sense of how life works.
No debate on anything you've posted AND I would say that children perceive and receive differently than the adults. My daughter's response to mask wearing when this all started---? "Cool! We all get to pretend we're playing doctor!" She thought it was silly and funny. No fear. No worry. We don't talk about COVID being bad or complain about the the things we can't do because of it. We talk about it as a passing part of my life. We talk about the new or different things we've learned or have gotten to try. I can't shield her from the other messages out there but I can say she's experiencing this as another curiosity of life. <3
Great points/illustrations/food for thought, Danielle, thanks for this. : )
Seems similar with other aspects of culture; kids will more or less just go along with whatever is presented and trust the adults, assuming this is just 'how life is.' "Fish can't see water," as they say.
And yet the cultural conditioning does utterly shape a child's most foundational beliefs / ways of seeing life and the world. So even if a lot of kids just kinda go along with the masking, it doesn't mean it isn't having a deep and powerful effect on them / their beliefs / their sense of how life works.