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- September 13, 2019 at 5:29 pm #222147Anonymous
The passage below is from a series I’m obsessed with at the moment called The Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire. It’s a great read for anyone who’s into fantasy and has felt like they’ve never been allowed to be who they truly are (sound familiar?). From the second book, “Down Among the Stick and Bones.”
“The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves – with forcing them into an idea of way they could be, not allowing them to choose their own paths – is that all too often, the one drawing the design knows nothing of the desires of their model. Children are not formless clay, to be shaped according to the sculptor’s whim, nor are they blank but identical dolls, waiting to be slipped into the mode that suits them best. Give ten children a toy box, and watch them select ten different toys, regardless of gender or religion or parental expectations. Children have preferences. The danger comes when they, as with any human, are denied those preference for too long.
Jill had always wanted to know what it was like to be allowed to wear her hair long, to put on a pretty skirt, to sit next to her sister and hear people cooing over what a lovely matched pair they were. She liked sports, yes, and she liked reading her books; she liked knowing things. She would probably have been a soccer player even if her father hadn’t insisted, would definitely have watched spaceships on TV and superheroes in the movies, because the core of who Jill was had nothing to do with the desires of her parents, and everything to do with the desires of her heart. But she would have done some of those things in a dress. Having half of everything she wanted denied her for so long had left her vulnerable to them: they were the forbidden fruit, and like all forbidden things, even the promise of them was delicious.”
Good stuff, right? You should read these.
Alexis
- October 2, 2019 at 7:27 pm #230323
Cool, I have never heard of the series but will see if I can find them.
Hugs,
Michelle
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