Honestly this poster got it right.

I look at the play and language that comes home from school with out 7yo and, well, yuck! So much focus on being a “rich guy”, comparison, taunting. It sucks! I recognize that there’s also the element of being seven and growing up in here, but I’m also a firm believer that play reflects the ambient noise children are exposed to.

We are looking at moving schools again but at some point it just feels like an honest reflection of a sick society.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 days ago

      pretty much everywhere one might gaze is an ad for an affluent lifestyle and I’m sure, at some point in a child asking what something is or how to get one, someone older has said something along the lines of “that’s for rich people”.

      clothes, cars, gadgets/games, accessories. the more expensive, the more provocative and compelling the ad usually is.

      kids know rich man exists, that he has things others don’t, so some will want to be one at play.

      I want to meet the kid who says he wants to be poor man. and this discussion has unlocked a core memory:

      I remember being real young and playing “cops and bad guys” and one kid said he should get to be the cop because his dad is a cop. my parents were divorced and my father was unemployed generally, so I said my dad was a robber. cop kid said his dad was going to catch my dad. so I said my dad would shoot his dad, and then I had to go sit on the mats at recess. lmao.