Childhood Dbq Essay

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A frequent thing that comes up for developments affected toward childhood is society. Society, be of rank, the norm, etc greatly impacts a child more than anything. In The Domostroi, states, “A man who loves his son will whip him often so that when he grows up…find profit in him…pride..make enemies jealous and will boast” (Doc 1), it says that if a child is whipped, educated, disciplined, that the child will grow up to be a good person and that their families will be able to make profit of him, and be amazing that others will get jealous. This applies to all ranks in society. Wither they be nobles or peasants, if a person greatly believes in what the general public hears and knows about or pretend to know about, they will apply it to their …show more content…

As it was said before, rank does not matter when it comes to kids and parents. As long as they wish for their kids to grow up and become better than they are now, it’s all good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a philosophe, in Amsterdam in 1762 stated, “An excess of rigor and an excess of indulgences are both to be avoided. If you let your children suffer, you expose their health, their lives. You make them miserable in the present. If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, yon are preparing great miseries for them; you make them delicate, sensitive.” (Doc 7) Rousseau believes that if you are too hard on your child you will make them miserable, and nowadays, you will have gone to jail with child abuse, and your kid can get messed up in the head and commit a grave crime. Yet he also believes that if you are too easy on your kid, which they will become wild or too kind and sensitive and that is equally as bad for example kids on scared straight. So that leaves a equal amount of punishment and kindness can go a long way into affecting childhood between

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