Observed today how its always good to take a bit of time out of your self-predetermined path and have a random chat with people, respond to the moment and get excited about people yeh!
Had a lovely chat with a little kid “5 and a half” years old I was told in no uncertain terms. He watched me climb up rocks and I even got a round of appluase at the top, I was VERY chuffed.
Encouraging everyone to try and engage with kids, its a pity so many kids grow up in a world where people turn a blind eye to communicating with them in a fun way. Subconciously, it must teach these young thing to feel individual and ostracised from feeling connected to everyone. Yeh! ask them how old they are, which school they went to and when their birthday is, I promise they will get you excited and smiling, man, my cheeks were all red and achy from smiling, aint that a great feeling darn it!
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December 11, 2008 at 1:59 pm
mum
well laurie – a child, as Ibnul Arabi it might have been, said – is closer to His Lord (than we are). that’s why they’re appealing, and also in my opinion why they’re more themselves and also more in the present moment…. (but also, being CLOSER to their Lord, they are FURTHER AWAY from the “meshiye” of this world (the way of this world); so they need to be shown that ….
have you read The Little Prince??
December 23, 2008 at 6:17 pm
heallan02
I used to think exactly as you do, and to some extent I still do agree. Sure I think children should be encouraged to think for themselves and sure adults should talk to them. But sometimes I think parents take it too far. Some children are visibly spoilt with attension and as a result grow up having been ‘the centre of attension’. There is a definate transition to be made between being a child, and being an adult, and I believe that is where the role of the parent should lie. This transition cannot be made any easier by an over doting parent smothing a child with love, and when it comes to leaving home the child/teenager/adult has to effectivly relearn all their values, and learn to care about places outside of the bosum.
Or, could this enforced change in opinion, which undermines everything the child knew actually be advantageous? Sounds counter-intuitive, hence the above paragraph … but maybe an enforced and unrelenting demand for change serves better to shock the individual into caring about the real world. Is there a correct level of caring? I certainly think there is such a thing as too much caring.
December 23, 2008 at 6:20 pm
heallan02
Unfortunaly I didnt make that last sentence clear. i ment ‘I think there is such a thing as too much caring of a parent to their child’ Rather than a child to the outside world – surely there is no excess of this possible? Or could there be?
December 23, 2008 at 10:48 pm
drcaterpillar
cant imagine there is such a thing as too much caring, certianly there can be too much caring of the wrong type.
definitely i agree with my kind of take on what your saying, i.e, that kids are smothered too much with overdoting attention, and so are ill equiped to handle the real world as it were. more kids should go out into the wilderness aged 10 with a knife and a cooking pot and learn to rely on themselves (this is a bit exaggerated). life can be too easy man for people when there young which disempowers them to get the most out of life when they get older
December 29, 2008 at 1:41 am
heallan02
Hear Hear.
How about a return of how they used to do it in Sparta, remove kids from their parents when they were 5 years old, force feed them pigs hearts and leave them in scary bear pits etc. Half of them return home, and those who did were raving homosexuals (no offence to that part of society – but not alot of use when trying to create the next warrior generation) capable of fighting to the death! Yes those spartans knew how modern life worked aye?!