CHST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Becky Mode, Puritans
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Video -christopher carl smith interview bout his research! *opportunity to reinforce what we have learned and recap some of the things that we have studied! Charted the process and history of children from the babylonians to the present! Famous quote this history of a childhood is a nightmare ! Very grand claim and argument- universal argument ( all children/from all times/in all places)! Although he works with some speci c material the claim is so grand that he is setting himself up to be an expert in such a large are! Childhood is about pain and misery-the history of childhood is the history about child abuse! Points to evidence in records of children being beaten in abused with unkind and un loving parents! Parents have their own unresolved psychological traumas and experiences, they continue and adulthood to perpetuate this abuse and mistreatment! Education and religion were terms for moulding children and changing views!