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Jean Jeques Rousseau Child Raising Essay

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The Swill philosopher, Jean-Jaceques Rousseau’s ideal child rearing calls for a variety of ideas such as enjoying childhood, parents should not “civilize” children too fast, parents should not use authority, and parents should not teach them why not to do, but should prevent kids from doing bad. The monster’s upbringing had nothing in common with Rousseau’s ideal child raising. Rousseau calls raising of children in an environment where they can enjoy their childhood and embrace their impulses, however, the idea of enjoying childhood was non-existent to the monster in. The monster didn’t have a single enjoyable experience in his upbringing; the monster’s creator abandon him, he burnt his hand in a fire, a town of villagers chased the monster …show more content…

The monster swiftly learned how society operates during his encounters with the villagers who drove him out of town, along with Felix attacking him to defend his father. The situation was certainly not helped by the monster discovering how repulsive he is. Rousseau’s next two ideas on child raising are that parents should not exert their authority over their children, but rather teach them to depend on the parents. He also suggests that parents should not teach them why not to do but rather prevent kids from doing bad.
The monster never encountered these problems because Victor fled from the monster because he was so grotesque. Personally, I disagree with the idea that parents should shelter their children rather than teach them why they should not do something. If we follow Rousseau’s advice to prevent children from doing wrong; then children will never know why they are not allowed to do something, such as touch a hot stove. Following Rousseau’s idea we avoid the problem without reason rather than addressing the issue. It would be smarter to teach the child why it is not smart to touch the stove because then the child knows that touching the stove will burn them. I believe that teaching why something should/should not be done is the fastest way to teach because the child knows the motivation behind the

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