The brain prepares for each new stage by growing new neural connections. This expresses as a steady stream of great expectations on the part of the child.
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Essential Joseph Chilton Pearce 36
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We rarely see our child for who they are. We see mostly what we expect the child should be, the cultural image. -
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Because of the breakdown of all the various controlling methods used by culture, the result has been Pharmaceuticals. If the child acts our any form of nonconformist behavior they are diagnosed with a disease and medicated, earlier and earlier, particularly in school. -
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Is the criterion set out there by the culture, conformity? Or, do we take our cues from the child and trust nature’s billion year old process? -
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The early stages of brain development are experience dependent. If the environment is constantly saying no, don’t, the child’s brain adapts accordingly by self-censoring. This limits development on every level. -
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Waldorf is an excellent example of an approach to schooling that is in alignment with the child’s natural developmental stages; body, emotions, imagination and spirit. -
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If the parent is attuned to what the actual child needs, not what the adult project as a cultural expectation, conflict virtually disappears. -
Essential Joseph Chilton Pearce 43
Play is the overarching intelligence only if we define authentic play as the act of learning. Most adult consider play as a waste of time, or a meaningless activity undertaken after serious learning has been accomplished. Play is learning and learning to the child is play. -
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The state of authentic play, as opposed to cultural competition, is the state of true learning and it is universal. -
Essential Joseph Chilton Pearce 45
Here Joe challenges the myth that animals don’t imagine or play. He describes a list of play activities that have no Darwinian survival meaning. -
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Semantic language distinguishes us from any other life form. Language lifts us up into a higher order of functioning. Language development begins in utero. -
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The stories told to the very early child are completely different from those told to the four and five year old. Fairytales appear violent and scary to adults. Children love them.