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What Will Your Kids See?

Mar 5, 2024

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Exploring how childhood experiences shape character through the suffragette Emma Lyon Pankhurst, emphasizing the power of positive role models in advocacy. Teaching children empathy and compassion is key to shaping their future conduct.

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Children learn by example, influencing their character more than heredity or education.

Setting positive examples inspires children to act with compassion and stand for just causes.

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The Impact of Childhood Experiences

Emma Lyon Pankhurst, a suffragette, was deeply influenced by two childhood memories - attending a fundraiser for freed slaves and encountering gallows near her school. These experiences shaped her into a political activist. Pankhurst believed that childhood impressions heavily impact character development more than heredity or education. The lesson emphasized here is that children learn through observation of adult behavior rather than explicit teachings.

Shaping Character and Advocacy Through Childhood Experiences

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As she writes her memoir Suffragette, these incidents illustrate to her “the fact that the impressions of childhood often have more to do with character and future conduct than heredity or education. I tell it also to show that my development into an advocate of militancy was largely a sympathetic process.”

The lesson, which we built the whole first month of The Daily Dad book around, is a simple one: Children learn by example. It doesn’t matter so much what adults tell them, what ideology they try to teach them, what matters is what children see. And that children are far more perceptive than we might think.

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