Traditional parenting educates the child in the way that is customary in society. And what and how is it customary in society to look at the upbringing of children? At least in the Western world, for the past few hundred years, parents have been more concerned that they «did the right thing for the child» and that there were no claims against them. How the child feels and how free he is or not — this was not a significant issue precisely on the grounds that few people cared about it, not only in relation to children, but also to adults themselves.
Your business is to do what is supposed to be done, and how you feel about it is your personal problem.
Free and traditional education
Free education, unlike the traditional one, lives on two ideas:
The first idea: free the child from the superfluous, from the unnecessary. Free education is always a little at odds with the traditional, which makes it necessary for the child to teach many traditionally accepted things. No, this is not necessary at all, say the supporters of free education, all this is unnecessary, and even harmful to the child, rubbish.
The second idea: the child should not feel coercion and coercion. Care must be taken to ensure that the child lives in an atmosphere of freedom, feels himself the master of his life, so that he does not feel coercion in relation to himself. See →