Keeping the light alive – Touch The Future

One of the biggest issues for parents is fear, is that this child will always be this rag-tag, barefooted kid who appears to have no manners, who is bumping into other people, who isn’t sitting still.

Things to think about

When becoming a parent, the biggest surprise can be how responsible we feel for the healthy growth of this other person. How can we keep fear from over taking that and trust that the children know what they need?
What current diagnosis worries you the most? What do you feel you need to look out for in children who are in your program and why?

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

The explosive growth and changes that occur during the critical early years come so fast and are so profound that most mothers, fathers and even educators are dazed by the blast. If we blink it is over and that moment will never repeat itself again. Playful Wisdom is a meditation, a precious reminder to be touched deeply, with amazement and wonder, every day, to be innocent once again, this time hopefully with wisdom as our wings.

You know one of the best books I ever read was “Cradles of Eminence,” and what it talked about, it looked at people who had done really interesting things, inventors. Edison was one of the ones that they talked about and how it was always the mother in the family who said you know what, this child has no business in school. I’m going to take him out of school and then they can do things on their own. Now for me, what I saw, absolutely the thread that I saw, it has to be in a rich environment. It can’t be in a vacuum. It can’t be in a house that doesn’t have anything to be curious about, where the child’s not going outside. Where you’re not encouraged to be curious about things.

But in a rich environment you can become anything you want to become, and how we keep that curiosity alive. But I think basically one of the biggest issues for parents is fear, is that this child will always be this rag-tag, barefooted kid who appears to have no manners, who is bumping into other people, who isn’t sitting still. You know it takes so much more energy to sit still for young children than it does to just move around. And then along with that comes the labels of ADHD and ADD and hyperactive scares parents, it scares parents when kids are whirling dervishes. Should they be spinning like that? Is there something wrong? And yet that’s exactly what the brain needs. So then we put them in programs that have more control over the child and maybe he’ll be what, more adult?