Greatness and Children

Children are people.

Possibly the least understood people on earth. Their failure to be understood is in direct proportion to our inability to understand them.

Children are mirrors. they reflect the adult world of tension, frustration and contradiction. They show us our weakness, priorities, fears and resentments. Children are the reflection of social conditions; a reminder of our neglect and victims of global selfishness.

Children are discerning, honest, bright, curious and respond to their enviroment from the first heart throb of the fetus. They live in a world of trust, magic and possibilities until we tell them it is not real. We destory the sanctity of personal creation in the name of some externally defined mandate. This violence is perpetuated on unwilling victims every day, all of the time.

Our children have a choice and the capabilities to change this reality. They have this choice, in particular, if we step out of their way and support the "who," the "why," and "what" of their personal destiny.

Living and Learning and Freeing Our Children

• All Children are Different. They all possess different rates and styles of learning and comprehension. They all perceive differently.
• Don't try to bend their will to yours. They have far greater tensile strength than you can imagine.
• Create as many opportunities for experience as possible. Learning through Living.
• Structure can be debilitating if rendered too soon. Learning is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
• The arts are critical to self discovery, encouraging self understanding and conviction. The arts provide a context for experiential immersion,and employ kinesthetic, multisensory and multidisciplinary learning.
• Respect, integrity, accountability, interconnectedness and compassion are necessary. Mistakes help us to be free. Understanding, listening, watching, observing, sensing, intuiting, all provide freedom. A free child is neither governed by parents, schools, religion or dogma, but able to confer with and understand reality outside of prejudice, near-sightingedness, hatred, bigotry or self interest. A free child will question everything including you or me, the meaning of suppression or oppression and the meaning of leadership.
• Freedom to become your own person suggests an absence of societal claims and icons; an avoidance of socially whitewashed stereotyping; a stripping away of outter wrapping. Poverty, status, fame or fortune are not relevant to the acts of defining and refining life's path. Self accessment, irreverance when necessary, sacredness when appropriate, discernment, intuiting balance and blessedness.
• Our job is to support and promote power, vision and purpose. To encourage, facilitate children taking on the management of their context, locale, community, environment, village....and world. Creating new realities, one step at a time.