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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9439849" data-attributes="member: 18">Particularly Hickman/Weis who were into a very &quot;free range parenting&quot; kind of approach, where kids were actively encouraged in their friend group/religious community to &quot;run wild&quot;, and basically do what made sense to them rather than being told what to do. We know about this because they've discussed it in reference to the Kender, who were apparently inspired by this.I think the most likely explanation though is that the story got planned out with characters at more reasonable ages, then someone went over the timeline and decided they had to be these ages for the timeline to make sense (and they may been wrong to think that!), even though now the story seemed kind of insane.Have you got some sources to back up the bolded bits? Because they don't really match well with modern science on puberty ages, nor with the archaeology I'm aware of. And the central heating claim? It seems like that would be easy to support, but I can't really find any evidence for that, and it has, I'm afraid to say, a bit of a &quot;Just So story&quot; vibe. I Google'd and wiki'd quite a bit but couldn't find anything to really support a position either as strong or single-factor as you're describing. Maybe I'm missing something more academic though?There's no question nutrition plays a significant role in the age puberty starts, but it's just one of many factors (including genetic ones).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9439849, member: 18"] Particularly Hickman/Weis who were into a very "free range parenting" kind of approach, where kids were actively encouraged in their friend group/religious community to "run wild", and basically do what made sense to them rather than being told what to do. We know about this because they've discussed it in reference to the Kender, who were apparently inspired by this. I think the most likely explanation though is that the story got planned out with characters at more reasonable ages, then someone went over the timeline and decided they had to be these ages for the timeline to make sense (and they may been wrong to think that!), even though now the story seemed kind of insane. Have you got some sources to back up the bolded bits? Because they don't really match well with modern science on puberty ages, nor with the archaeology I'm aware of. And the central heating claim? It seems like that would be easy to support, but I can't really find any evidence for that, and it has, I'm afraid to say, a bit of a "Just So story" vibe. I Google'd and wiki'd quite a bit but couldn't find anything to really support a position either as strong or single-factor as you're describing. Maybe I'm missing something more academic though? There's no question nutrition plays a significant role in the age puberty starts, but it's just one of many factors (including genetic ones). [/QUOTE]

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