Children interpret adult messages in unpredictable and deeply internalized ways

Evidence

You can control and censor a child’s reading, but you can’t control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child’s heart. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1028

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1028
• XREF: connects to: Children hit without understanding why are processing relational rupture, not learning a lesson. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8256; The same signal-command system trained schoolchildren through coded gestures — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 250; Learning one’s own parents engage in sex triggers horror and repudiation (+2 more)