Authenticity watch: the child-like child
Posted by Dalton48 on 11 Jan 2010 at 09:44 pm | Tagged as: Small people
A proud parent of a four-year-old, from a nauseating story about parents who tweet as their preschoolers:
“Roan’s all about superheroes and Scooby Doo and running around in his jammies. He’s still maintaining his child-like innocence so it’s fun to portray that sometimes.”
I’m afraid there’s probably no cure for the instinct to post adorable little anecdotes about the darndest things that one’s kids do and say, reprehensible though it is.
But I agree that doing so in a fake first person stream of consciousness format (twee-ting, if you will) is stepping way over the line.
This wasn’t meant to be quite so curmudgeonly. The story was obnoxious, but what irritated me was the description of a child’s innocence as “child-like.” Can a child really be described as “child-like”? Sometimes, things really are just what they are.