Diana Black Kennedy
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

Have you read Alfie Kohn’s book The Myth of the Spoiled Child (https://amzn.to/2NsDCjr)? It makes this exact point with wonderful and funny examples. And of course you are right — from Oedipus (the whole mess started when the king learned that his son would one day replace him…) and other greek myths (each God king eating their own children to keep from being replaced) to every parent ever complaining about the music and looks of their children, each generation thinks the next one is the worst ever. Brings to mind Dickens…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Always has been, always will be…

    Diana Black Kennedy

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    Diana Black Kennedy is an educational therapist in San Anselmo, California. She writes a blog about education at www.MindSparkLearning.com.