March 16, 2005

Adults

I had cause to mediate a verbal conflict today and it got me thinking how adults behave so differently and react so differently and if a person can just see the other person's perspective and accept it, not necessarily agree with it, how much better this world would be.

Listening to the radio just now, a lady was on talking about how our brains are wired from birth to age 3. So many people think that the kids don't have any capacity to learn at that age and so neglect them, not realizing that they are setting themselves up for failure.

So when we beat babies, we are wiring them to understand violence as a way of life. When we don't nurture babies, they don't know how to love. When we don't reason with toddlers, we don't develop their capacity for thinking things through.

Do our educators understand this?

Posted by yamfoot at March 16, 2005 06:55 PM
Comments

probably not

Posted by: jdid at March 17, 2005 07:29 AM

Good question!

Posted by: Dr. D. at March 17, 2005 08:55 PM

BTW, one of the good thongs....sorry, that should be things (wonder where my mind is) about blogging is that we can disagree with our blog pals but still respect their point of view. Would be lovely if people the world over could get along like that truly.

Posted by: Dr. D. at March 17, 2005 08:58 PM