Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Early Education

[cahn]

Funny enough, this whole part was then followed by a provision stating that if Fritz was disobedient, they (= Finkenstein and Kalkstein) should always threaten him with the Queen's reaction, never with FW's

Yes indeed. We have discussed how FW, in many respects, didn't understand child psychology, like, at all. And--surprise!--none of his children turned out as he intended.

Heh, this actually does seem to me that he kind of did understand the concept of good cop, bad cop? Only... it might have worked better if he had actually stuck to it and not in fact had all these over-the-top reactions that everyone was quite correctly scared of :P