Hello, friends, strangers, and random guests. I have to say I am pretty overwhelmed and concerned about certain aspects of life. My daughter is six and a half, and this age has proven to have its own challenges for me as a parent who DOESN'T WANT TO give her child up and completely submerge her into the social world of horrific, brainwashing influences which come from all directions - from her school teachers and classmates to TV screen, stupid videos on YouTube, music, and the human social world in general.
Many people say "just let it be." Many people even believe that parents have to put their children in as many classes, camps, and activities as possible so that children stay out of the house pretty much all day and come back just to sleep, having a 10 minutes snuggle with mom or dad and a 5 minute book read before bed. The rest of their life they supposedly should be given to other people, other influences, other activities, and electronic devices.
REALLY?!
No, I can't just "let it be." If I just let it be, the rest of the world WILL NOT. If I just let my child "be", her school teacher, her dance teacher, her classmates, her TV shows, advertising on the streets, music from the radio, and many other people and things WILL NOT let her be. They will have her completely. They will influence her. They will teach her and shape her the way this SYSTEM needs all the little ones to be shaped. Like a conveyor.
Remember - if you let your child be, the rest of this human world will not, and do you want your children to be raised by the System, or do you want them to learn about the world from you as well?
I guess it all comes down to how important our children are to us and how we perceive them - as living, learning beings who should be FREE, or as another bunch of cloned slaves, or a commodity.
I say none of us should give their children up.
What is "giving them up"?
- When we, adults, stop developing and growing, we give them up
- When we don't teach by example (tell them what to do but ourselves do differently) we give them up
- When we take them to other people for the entire day because we are too busy or to tired we give them up
- When we let them do things that are harmful to them (like playing computer games for hours at a time) we give them up
- When we don't listen to them genuinely we give them up
And many many more...