Discovering who I am – Touch The Future

Children who play bring a sense of themselves to everything they do. Kids who don’t, seem to be at a loss. They don’t who they are. They have no initiative. They don’t know how to try something. Kids who play can always try out something new. See if it works. Not be upset by failure.

Things to think about

Have you seen a child who has no sense of who they are? One that might seem to be afraid of what will happen next?
Have you seen those children who cannot hold conversations with adults or work out problems with other children at a developmentally appropriate level?
Is play in your program given priority over formal academics?

Highlights from Playful Wisdom
by Michael Mendizza featuring Bev Bos and Joseph Chilton Pearce

Principals continued

11. Appreciate that each moment of your life is a precious gift.

Don’t allow the Niagara Falls of habitual and reflexive thought-feelings dull your direct experience. The quieter you are inside, the more alive and vivid your experiences and relationships will be. Intellect, all the things we think about, is not intelligence. With sensitive, attuned presence, most often the less “thinking and talking” going on inside, the more intelligence we express outside, especially with children.

12. Take advantage of and share the resources available at Touch the Future Academy.

Wisdom is timeless. I have been reaching out and exploring what it means to raise healthy and sane children in a crazy world with some of the world’s most passionate and insightful authors and researchers. The more time you spend exploring these resources, the clearer and obvious these principles become. The journey is exponential. Each new insight multiplies your understanding and wisdom tenfold. Personally I would view and review the entire Joseph Chilton Pearce Library. Joseph Chilton Pearce is original, unique. No one has done what Joe has done—passionately and incisively exploring a view of near-limitless human potential and the self-imposed limitations that inhibit and block that unfolding, describing both and how they relate. In Magical Parent: Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce and I offered seven principles that may be of interest. For more on this, visit The Classroom in the Academy. (https://ttfuture.org/academy) Everyone is welcome.

Children who have the opportunity to play at every level with all sorts of loose parts in a really rich environment development the most important thing you can have is a sense of themselves, who they are. How they fit in. how they fit into the play group. How they fit in with the elders. How they fit in in every way. They bring a sense of themselves to everything they do. Kids who don’t, seem to be at a loss. They don’t who they are. They have no initiative. They don’t know how to try something. Kids who play can always try out something new. See if it works. Not be upset by failure. Well I’ll just try something else. It always reminds me of Edison. How many times did he try with the light bulb and just different things? He knew so many things that didn’t work. Well it’s the essence of how we grow, how we discover, how we become who we really, really have to become is to play with everything. Kids who don’t are lost souls. They have no sense of spirit. They have no sense of themselves. I think it’s a really, really frightening time. They seem to be, all of us in many ways I think are wanderers in this world, always trying to understand ourselves, along with trying to understand the world. But kids who play have ways to do that, ways to think about that. They just have a sense of who they are. Kids who don’t I think are just lost. They have no way of playing themselves into a better place in their mind. I think when you’re down if you can play yourself into a different place, if you can think about different things to do, what else could you do? What could you do next time? That comes when you’re playing all the time. But I think we haven’t begun to see the ramifications of people not playing.