tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22911183.post1177547744320170267..comments2023-10-25T05:30:31.246-07:00Comments on Okinawan Fighting Art "Ti": The Terrible Two'sCharles Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812618556413423872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22911183.post-67460094744230062002014-04-08T12:43:12.796-07:002014-04-08T12:43:12.796-07:00"...children are violent well before they hav..."...children are violent well before they have been infected by war toys or cultural stereotypes. The most violent age is not adolescence but toddlerhood: in a recent large study, almost half the boys just past the age of two, and a slightly smaller percentage of the girls, engaged in hitting, biting, and kicking. As the author pointed out, "Babies do not kill each other, because we do not give them access to knives and guns. The question...we've been trying to answer for the past 30 years is how do children learn to aggress. [But] that's the wrong question. The right question is how do they learn <i>not</i> to aggress."<br /><br />--Steven Pinker, <i>The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature</i>. 2002. (p. 316)John Vesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04434740196022601040noreply@blogger.com