Thanks, ugh, Jon, another historical Horrible I wish I did not know about. That this multiple murder happened in a school building executed by a parent (guessing with cultural certainty at that time), to me exemplifies the title of a book by Lloyd deMause every parent, now or to come, must read: "The Origins of War in Child Abuse" (here for free download, both digital text and audiobook)
I am convinced as a teacher of "Parent Effectiveness Training" https://www.parenteffectivenesstrainingnewzealand.com/ and a Voluntaryist, that the only way we will end this litany of Loss caused by parentally damned and damaged parents perpetuating the damnation and damage upon their own and others’ children—will break the Euripidean "The Sins of the Fathers are visited upon the children" vicious cycle--is by Peaceful Parenting that eschews both punishments and rewards and gives the young ones freedom from birth and shapes the environment, most especially the parents themselves, to enable all to be responsible for that freedom.
As deMause, the founder of The Association for Psychohistory wrote:
“The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized, and sexually abused. The ultimate cause of all wars and human misery is the parental holocaust of children throughout history.
The historical evolution of the psyche is a process that mainly involves removing developmental distortions, so that each psyche can develop in its own way optimally. Culture evolves through the increase of love and freedom for children, so that when they grow up they can invent more adaptive and happier ways of living. Because we were all children before we were adults, childhood evolution must precede social evolution, psychogenesis must precede sociogenesis.
Can we afford not to teach parenting? What more important task can we devote our resources to? If war, social violence, class domination and economic destruction of wealth are really revenge rituals for childhood trauma, how else can we remove the source of these rituals? Do we really want to have massive armies and jails and emotionally crippled adults forever? Must each generation continue to torture and neglect its children so they repeat the violence and economic exploitation of previous generations? Why not achieve meaningful political and social revolution by first achieving a parenting revolution?
History is now a race between too slowly improving childrearing and too fast evolving destructive technology. The crucial task of future generations will be to raise loved children who grow up to be peaceful, rather than walking time bombs. Self-mastery must replace the mastery of others. Global suicide must not continue to be our goal.”
Thanks, ugh, Jon, another historical Horrible I wish I did not know about. That this multiple murder happened in a school building executed by a parent (guessing with cultural certainty at that time), to me exemplifies the title of a book by Lloyd deMause every parent, now or to come, must read: "The Origins of War in Child Abuse" (here for free download, both digital text and audiobook)
https://psychohistory.com/audiobooks/
https://psychohistory.com/books/the-origins-of-war-in-child-abuse/
I am convinced as a teacher of "Parent Effectiveness Training" https://www.parenteffectivenesstrainingnewzealand.com/ and a Voluntaryist, that the only way we will end this litany of Loss caused by parentally damned and damaged parents perpetuating the damnation and damage upon their own and others’ children—will break the Euripidean "The Sins of the Fathers are visited upon the children" vicious cycle--is by Peaceful Parenting that eschews both punishments and rewards and gives the young ones freedom from birth and shapes the environment, most especially the parents themselves, to enable all to be responsible for that freedom.
As deMause, the founder of The Association for Psychohistory wrote:
“The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized, and sexually abused. The ultimate cause of all wars and human misery is the parental holocaust of children throughout history.
The historical evolution of the psyche is a process that mainly involves removing developmental distortions, so that each psyche can develop in its own way optimally. Culture evolves through the increase of love and freedom for children, so that when they grow up they can invent more adaptive and happier ways of living. Because we were all children before we were adults, childhood evolution must precede social evolution, psychogenesis must precede sociogenesis.
Can we afford not to teach parenting? What more important task can we devote our resources to? If war, social violence, class domination and economic destruction of wealth are really revenge rituals for childhood trauma, how else can we remove the source of these rituals? Do we really want to have massive armies and jails and emotionally crippled adults forever? Must each generation continue to torture and neglect its children so they repeat the violence and economic exploitation of previous generations? Why not achieve meaningful political and social revolution by first achieving a parenting revolution?
History is now a race between too slowly improving childrearing and too fast evolving destructive technology. The crucial task of future generations will be to raise loved children who grow up to be peaceful, rather than walking time bombs. Self-mastery must replace the mastery of others. Global suicide must not continue to be our goal.”
I'll check this out. Thanks!