a direct physical link to his past - yes. He was a baby once.
YES!
And I love the way the show grounds people, how no one is static. They were children once.
YES!
You can't separate the child from the adult
YES!
and that's actually a very important lesson the show is trying to impart - how you treat a child will impact them for life.
Yes, but it's more than that.
One of my all-time favorite books is The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind by Alison Gopnik et al. There's a line in the last chapter: Children aren't just valuable because they will turn into grown-ups but because they are thinking, feeling, individual people themselves.
And also, as you say, you can't separate the child from the adult. If you want to understand an adult, you must understand the child he or she was. (And if you're having trouble sympathizing with an adult, learning about their childhood helps.)
no subject
YES!
And I love the way the show grounds people, how no one is static. They were children once.
YES!
You can't separate the child from the adult
YES!
and that's actually a very important lesson the show is trying to impart - how you treat a child will impact them for life.
Yes, but it's more than that.
One of my all-time favorite books is The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind by Alison Gopnik et al. There's a line in the last chapter:
Children aren't just valuable because they will turn into grown-ups but because they are thinking, feeling, individual people themselves.
And also, as you say, you can't separate the child from the adult. If you want to understand an adult, you must understand the child he or she was. (And if you're having trouble sympathizing with an adult, learning about their childhood helps.)