They are sometimes better than us adults when it comes to handling certain scenarios.
For example:
- When they fall out with their friends, they have a little sulk, then smile and make up. When adults fall out with friends, we ignore them for years and usually over something silly.
- Our children will say hi to anyone, no matter who they are. Whereas we do not make the effort to say hi to anybody.
- A child will ask an honest question when they are curious about something. Adults will gossip and spread whispers about what they think the answer may be.
- Children can make fun out of anything, they just add a splash of imagination and there is no stopping them. These days adults need money to have fun, they need to buy material goods or purchase something to keep up with everyone else.
- Children don't care what they look like, they don't care about a bit of mud or grass stains. Adults spend so much time on their appearance and judging everyone else's that they forget to use personality.
- Children concentrate on their own fun and love having plenty of it. Adults are too busy comparing themselves to everyone else that they forget to have their own fun.
- Children live for the here and now. Adults either hold on to the past too much or put too much effort into the future and forget to live the here and now.
- Children find it really easy to smile and laugh. Adults seem to have forgotten how to do that.
- Children do not judge race, religion or ethnicity. Adults most certainly do.
- Children are care free. Adults care too much about what everyone else thinks.
- If you put children from all around the world into a playground they will not fight for ownership of it. If you put adults from around the world into an area they will fight to claim it.
- Children will not start a war. Adults will.
- Children don't care if something isn't perfect. Adults do.
- Children can give love freely without expecting anything in return. Most adults cannot do this.
- Children don't look to others for ideas or imagination - they have plenty of their own. I think many adults have forgotten how to use theirs.
A picture showing my two youngest children playing on the beach with seaweed and pebbles, not much money involved, no fancy toys or play centres around - just good old fashioned imagination and freedom.
Our children have the right idea when it comes to how we should be in our lives on this planet. They are happy and free and funny and imaginative and they are not scared to try something new.
We should try and be like our children, learn to laugh and care without expecting anything in return. We should care about others whether we know them or not. We should not judge and comment badly towards others just for the sake of being hurtful. We shouldn't turn our backs on people because they are different in any way. We should not presume, provoke or attack but instead learn to do the opposite and care, love and respect one another.
Next time you are about to get mad over something silly, fall out with a friend over nothing important, feel envious because your friends have more money than you, feel like being hurtful to someone just because they are different, or worry about the way you look.... just think for a minute, what would your children do? The chances are they wouldn't even care, because they would be too busy living their lives for the moment and having fun.
Oh to have a day in the life of our childhoods.... just one day - wouldn't it be wonderful?
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