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Hi Linda,
Congratulations on you 4000th post.
I appreciate everyone here at Adland, and especially you, Linda.
But I have to say that I really appreciate children. They are our most precious resource.
We can learn so much from a child, if we would take the time.
They have the most amazing capacity to love unconditionally. They are innovative, and creative.
A child can present a case, better than any lawyer I know.
A child will tote a shovel around in the winter, to clear walks. In the summer, a child will set up a lemonade or cool-aid stand on a golf course.
A child is a born entrepreneur.
Children don't analyze they act.
And what do adults do with this precious resource? Do we try to learn from them? No.
We sign them up for exlusive schools, BEFORE they are born, we drug them if they are too active or "disrupt" a classroom. We sit them in front of video games, computers, and TV's and say we are teaching them technology.
Adults should embrace the opportunity to sit and learn from a child.
We as adults have lost what we once had as children. Vision.
Children have the purest form of reasoning and logic.
They don't parse a sentence they devour it and spit it back out as an action.
There is no "Paralysis through Analysis" for a child,
Walt Disney was once reprimanded by a teacher for drawing faces on his flowers. The teacher told him "flowers don't have faces". He told her,"mine do".
If we could only retain that sort of imagination as an adult.
And what do we do with these wonderful little creatures? We suppress and repress them, so that they will fit into the mold that society tells us they should fit into.
Given the choice, I would rather spend my days with a group of kindergarten children, than the supposed greatest thinkers in the world.
A child can hear a butterflies wings, spend some time with a child and maybe you will be able to too.
Your Good Friend
Deborah
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