The so-called “Terrible Twos” are a myth. A Drunken Postmaster Supposedly coined by a drunken postmaster in the 1800s, the phrase has become ubiquitous among new parents everywhere I hear anyone talking about children. I have raised a child through them and participated in the upbringing of a number of nieces and nephews, and everyContinue reading “Adultism in Parenting: The Terrible Twos”
Category Archives: family
My Review of “Childhood” by David Jenks
Childhood was written by David Jenks. This is my review for The Freechild Project. In Childhood Jenks stabs at the heart of sociology’s obsession with mythology, this time in the form of childhood. By providing a concise, if inaccessible, analysis of why and how sociologists, psychologists, and educators conceive of children, Jenks encourages a criticalContinue reading “My Review of “Childhood” by David Jenks”
Adam F.C. Fletcher 