We all know that kids come into existence through a loving experience and they come into this world with infinite wisdom. They have the ability to learn things quickly and their bodies are developing and mutating at high rates. Also they come into this world to provide infinite love to the people they come in contact with. It is also a reality that some kids are not given the opportunity to flower and reveal their full potential. We as kids' guides need to make the right decisions to ensure the flower in the kid has the chance to flourish. We could ask? how do we do this? How do we know what to do and how to guide them. Well, I am sure that all parents can say that there is an infinite wisdom inside them that comes out to help the kids evolve.
I have been thinking about this a lot. I have been given many opportunities in my life to flower myself and I am infinitely grateful for these. Also, I have been given some limitations, based on fearful society beliefs, that have limited my flowering. I am also grateful for these because it has given me a chance to recognize the opposites. Lately I have been thinking a lot on how to make the world a better place for all of us. I think this is something we all think. I get a little overwhelmed with the massive task but I have also started to recognize that big things can happen through small acts. I guess that's a little bit of a cliché but I think it is true. I have been gardening quite a bit lately and it is always a magical experience. First because I share with nature, second I have been able to be directly linked to the natural cycle of the mother earth and third it has given me the opportunity to share with close ones and show them my projects. I have to confess that I do feel proud of my projects
.Well, putting all of the above together a great idea came into manifestation and basically it is to start teaching kids about the life cycle of mother earth and show them how it is directly related to our existence. On a side note, kids are very present in my life because my mom works for a Montessori program, the house next door is a nursery and my girlfriend has young cousins which I had the pleasure to see grow and evolve the last couple of months. So how could I or we start teaching kids or start showing kids how to interact with mother earth? Start from the beginning I said, and well, that took me straight to composting. Composting teaches so many things of the cycle and it is a very simple hands on activity. COMPOST! I love compost so much hehe. Basically it teaches us and the kids how EVERYTHING is INTERCONNECTED. Our direct waste from our kitchen ends up being our food! That is the cycle. It also teaches us how the different levels of existence are so critical for everything to be. If the bugs, fungus and bacteria are happy, then the soil and birds are happy. If the soil and birds are happy then the plants are happy. If the plants are happy then the animals and humans are happy. If we are all happy we compost and then the bugs and the fungus and bacteria are happy! Wow! Well, this is what I have been thinking to myself a lot, but to start making this a reality, our kids have to be connected to this cycle. They don't have to be connected to it directly but they have to be in tune with it and to be in tune with it they have to see it and be with it.
So much of now-a-days inspiration comes from nature and who does not enjoy healthy mother earth?
I wanted to start this forum to collaborate on ideas on what you think kids now-a-days should be learning. The world is changing and this is a magical time. Let the ideas flow!
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