The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids - Plot & Excerpts
Let Animals Work for You For a man to be trustworthy… the boy must have been in the habit of being kind and considerate towards animals; and nothing is so likely to give him that excellent habit as his seeing from his very birth, animals taken great care of, and treated with great kindness by his parents, and now-and-then having a little thing to call his own. William Cobbett, Cottage Economy, 1823 ‘I don’t like mud!’ screams my mother on the rare occasions she comes to visit us down on the farm. ‘I don’t like it. And why have you got all these animals?’ My mother’s philosophical approach to the world could be defined as ‘anti-nature enlightenment’. She believes in the power of hard work and ingenuity to replace mud, and chickens wandering through the kitchen, and cold and wet, and all the awkward messes of nature with paving stones and supermarkets and central heating. She likes clean, tidy, mud-free spaces. She wants to conquer nature. She lives in a world of shining chrome and gleaming white plastic kitchen appliances.
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