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I thought there would be some twist to this article but no it was really just as mean and pretentious as it sounds

Oh my god who fucking wrote this

Everyone I know treasures what they drew as children once they’re all grown up and is glad if their family hung onto it

The final lines just viscerally disgust me here:

“
There’s a point, perhaps around the age of 7, when memory takes over and
a self-history starts, where children themselves decide what’s
important to them and what isn’t. Of course, you shouldn’t throw
something away that your kids say they want to keep. But absent that
urge, and particularly in the early years before it develops, most
children’s art exists to be destroyed.

“

For one thing, who the F U C K thinks children only becomes conscious of themselves and forming solid memories after seven years old?! Shouldn’t you be able to remember at least ages 3-5 like you can any other period in your life??

Second, the things created before that period are still probably the most important and amazing of all. Those are the relics of what your brain was like when it was brand new. I can’t think of many things more special to a human life than the window that offers.

In terms of brain development, this is a pack of lies. Kids become cognizant of other people as having a life separate from theirs at about age 5 or 6; they’re already very much self-aware, or why would we even bother sending them to school?

Why do some adults hate children so much?

At daycare when I was two, they gave us plastic plates to draw on, then sealed the marker scribbles in. Mine was just a mess of colours, but it was also my favourite plate, and I ate dinner off it every night for years until the coating deteriorated.

Anyone who thinks their kid wouldn’t be utterly destroyed to find out that thing they worked so hard on was thrown away – any adult who thinks their kid wouldn’t remember that kind of betrayal – is demonstrating that they don’t even consider children to be humans with thoughts and feelings of their own.

My mother threw away every single drawing I did. She kept them all in a folder and at the end of the month she would throw it away. When I discovered it I was devastate and I stopped giving her anything. No drawing,no sketches. Anything.
One day she saw me drawing and was bewildered that I could draw,then she got mad that I kept it to myself.

You didn’t want it first and now you that I can draw well you want it? Fuck you!