Generally speaking you would think that this would be a good thing, right? However with the best of intentions parents seem to fall victim to the same traps into which their parents fell.
I remember when I was very young that my parents would jump upon me telling me all the bad things about smoking. It seems that whether it is priests or parents the tendency is to get hold of children as young as possible, so that they can force their beliefs into tabula rasa of the child's consciousness.
The child is helpless and from this time for quite some time he cannot even say no, nor does he or she know how to say no.
The child is so young and vulnerable that she can't resist and cannot fight against the parents; he depends on them for his survival. One of the problems is that from an early age children are filled up with the beliefs of the parents, uncles and aunties and others around them, whether it is about getting a good job, whether about becoming a good dancer, doctor, lawyer, writer, trades person or a Judge or whether about which God to believe in.
The question would seem to be whether they should be given a thirst for truth or do we start cramming and ramming things down their little throats in their best interests of course.
Should they be left alone with their own observations and experience and only after they have become mature left to discover and enquire on their own?
Some might say we should give them all the beliefs we have inherited from our parents whether religious, political, social or otherwise? Should they be given a passionate thirst or should we give them all the beliefs we have acquired?
Everyone has to decide these things for themselves but beliefs divide people, countries and religions and people fight and die for them. My feeling is that perhaps children should be taught that there is a silence which is intelligent and from there relaxation and awareness can happen and that being unoccupied once in awhile is a good thing.
An empty mind is not the devil's playground as most are taught at school. If we help them to become more intelligent, they can make their way through their life on their own without always needing a hand from their parents or a hand out from the government and they will become later able to help others navigate through life.
To be independent a child will need both a thirst for truth and knowledge; knowledge so that they can be equipped to deal with the world and a thirst for truth so they can discover those things beyond the mind.
Sam J. Borrett - first trained as a lawyer,then retrained in India as a Rebalancer, Bioenergetics Therapist, Meditation Leader, Facilitator, and Hypnotherapist.
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