#Learn from children

[harmonyhealinghub]

Embracing the Child Within: What Adults Can Learn from Children

Shaina Tranquilino

October 16, 2023

As adults, we often find ourselves caught up in the complexities and responsibilities of life, which can sometimes overshadow the simplicity and joy that children effortlessly radiate. However, beneath their innocent exterior lies a wealth of wisdom that we, as grown-ups, can learn from. In this blog post, we will explore some valuable lessons that adults can glean from observing and interacting with children.

1. Living in the Present Moment:

Children possess an unparalleled ability to live in the present moment without constantly worrying about the past or future. They fully immerse themselves in whatever activity they engage in – whether playing outside, drawing pictures, or even simply focusing on their favorite toy. This unwavering focus teaches us to appreciate and savor each moment rather than getting lost in our thoughts or anxieties.

2. Curiosity and Wonder:

Have you ever noticed how children seem to be endlessly curious about everything around them? From asking countless questions to eagerly exploring new environments, their thirst for knowledge is insatiable. By embracing this childlike curiosity, adults can cultivate a mindset of lifelong learning and maintain an open mind towards different ideas and perspectives.

3. Unabashed Creativity:

Children possess an innate ability to think outside the box and unleash their creativity without fear of judgment or failure. Whether it's through imaginative play, storytelling, or creating art with no predetermined rules, they inspire us to tap into our own creative potential that may have been suppressed over time. Embracing our inner child allows us to reconnect with our imagination and discover innovative solutions to problems we face as adults.

4. Fearlessness and Resilience:

Children approach challenges with bravery and resilience; they are not deterred by initial failures or setbacks but instead view them as stepping stones toward success. Their fearless nature reminds us that taking risks, being adaptable, and maintaining a positive attitude can lead to personal growth and achievement.

5. Authentic Emotions:

Children are refreshingly honest about their emotions, expressing joy, sadness, anger, or excitement without reservation. As adults, we often suppress or mask our feelings due to societal expectations or fear of vulnerability. By observing children's ability to freely express their emotions, we learn the importance of embracing our own emotional landscape and fostering genuine connections with others.

6. Building Relationships:

Children have an innate ability to form friendships effortlessly. They approach interactions with authenticity, acceptance, and a lack of prejudice. Adults can learn from this by nurturing meaningful connections with others based on trust, empathy, and appreciation for diversity.

In our quest for success and adulthood responsibilities, it is crucial not to lose touch with the child within us. By observing the remarkable qualities displayed by children - living in the present moment, curiosity and wonder, creativity, fearlessness and resilience, authentic emotions, and building relationships - adults can rediscover invaluable lessons that enhance their quality of life. Let us strive to embrace our inner child as a lifelong companion on our journey towards happiness and fulfillment.

#embrace your inner child #childlike wonder #learn from children #rediscover innocence #live in the moment #unleash your creativity #reconnect with imagination #nurture curiosity #find joy in the small things #laugh out loud #playfulness is key

[crippledanarchy]

When you call "influencers" what they are, freelance marketers, it makes the phrase "mommy/family influencer" sound just as dark as it is in reality.

They are using their children to sell you things. Some of these people intentionally have children solely in order to use them as marketing devices.

They aren't harmless or wholesome. They are expanding and normalizing new and different forms of familial abuse to a worldwide audience

#did we learn nothing from jon and kate plus eight?? #like watching someone use a tv show to turn her children against their other parent #and then institutionalized and completely abandonded a child for being inconvenient #but no. we had to bring it back en masse

[blithe-bee]

of all the good reasons to have an ace headcanon for him, why would you land on this

#not maintagging this #and I wish I could say this was a singular instance #but sadly it isn't #people can be uninterested in sex without being reduced to children or having their intelligence insulted #not even mentioning that a-spectrum experience is so varied in general #the two sides of terrible asexual generalisation: unfeeling robots and children #if you say someone is too dumb or emotionally immature to understand sex #you imply that if they just grew up a little or learned a bit more they would change their mind #ace people get that kind of patronising enough we don't need the call to come from inside the house as well

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 183

There’s a loud snarling noise outside the window. 

Not that Jazz is concerned. She’s just also trying to study for med school and would appreciate some quiet. And preferred her brother not contracting rabies whenever he tried to square off with the local rogue or three who tried to use the alley. 

As he had put it, it was his alley, he’d claimed it for tinkering. Though perhaps she should maybe ask him to quiet down on his insisted territorialism, even if she understood it. She would also probably maul someone if they tried to enter their apartment flat. It came with the territory of being ecto contaminated, or as the rest of them were now calling it, with being a liminal. 

Once the more draconic aspects started to emerge well, one wasn’t just contaminated anymore after all. Hence the whole school-worth of them leaving Amity while all their parents waged war against the guys in white. Last she heard it was going well. 

Which meant she could focus on her studies as soon as- okay it wouldn’t be quiet, it seems the rest of the kids joined in on mauling the poor idiot who tried to steal their things from the alley. Damn…

#Ghosts are Dragons #Dcxdp #Dpxdc #Prompts #Liminal Amity Park #Technically ecto-contaminated but the younger generations are full blown mutated & liminal so #Why yes Danny’s ghost form is a dragon & yes all of these teens are in a rundown abandoned apartment building #They’re repairing it & doing school online while hiding from the government #Why yes the local hero HAS noticed them #But Billy is also living in said apartment building sooo #They’ve all clocked him as Marvel but Snitches get Stitches #Or mauled by rabid liminal children with dragon instincts now #Dora & Fright Knight are their babysitters #Billy is delighted to learn how to use a sword #What better place for them to hide than the city full of magic that sees inhuman things every day #billy batson #No Ghost King Danny #It would be funny if it's one of his parents but no ghost king danny

[ibtisams]

middleeasteye

#something also interesting from their post is about how underreported the Palestinian children hostages taken by Israel are compared to the #coverage the Israeli child hostages taken by Hamas get #the numbers have never been comparable #but I just really liked this post from middleeasteye and wanted to share #since learning about the Palestinian children hostages and what they are enduring before their release is important #palestine #🦢

[bucksbisexualawakening]

the progression from "there's a morning snack and a midday snack" and "20 bucks for pizza" buck looking after his friend's kid to "bobby's famous lasagne: 6 types of cheese cooked to perfection" buck cooking for his family to "that's makes me your sous chef" teaching his kid how to cook is making me go so feral.

#going from two separate things - like how normal friends who aren't co-parenting would organised it - to the most domestic thing ever #to being the good responsible parent and making sure he eats real food before cookies #AND and the motifs that've been established: teaching to cook as father/son bonding and cooking food as a demonstration of love #im UNWELLLLL #buckley diaz family #911 abc #right from the pilot buck has had an intense care for children (but was also immature himself) #and we've seen him grow into a person who is literally becoming a father. (alongside his increasing ability to cook - which he is learning #from his own father figure) #children - specifically caring for children and being a father - has been tied to very important parts of buck's character development #thoughout the seasons #that man wants nothing more than to be a father AND HE IS ONE. #i dont even know if what im saying is coherent anymore but you get my drift #season 6 911 #lynnsaysstuff

[yuwuta]

Nanami ver of bsf upstaging bf?? ❤️

listen… i meant what i said when nanami is just as bad, if not worse when it comes to driving your boyfriend away/upstaging him... maybe his tact makes him a better man than satoru, but you could also argue that it doesn’t; you could argue that kento is is only as respectful as necessary and consciously pushes boundaries, whereas satoru just does!! he just IS!! satoru IS overbearing and knows no consequence, but kento is not and he is very aware that evert action has a consequence, but he weighs it, determines it’s worth it, or—arguably worse—determines that the threat of your boyfriend getting mad or figuring him out isn’t high enough. kento is premeditated murder, he is going to drive your boyfriend so insane, to a place where he fully believes he cannot compete where he cannot compares, and kento will not feel bad about it. so, i rest my case, vice president of the not shit club, and their children are NO better!! 

also, having been friends with kento sets a bar that your past and/or current boyfriend must quickly learn to meet, and more often than not, they don’t even come close. why go on random dating-app dates when kento sends food to your house just because he had an inkling you were sad (you texted him in a certain way that tipped him off). dates meeting you halfway at a restaurant/bar isn’t nearly as flattering when kento drives an hour in heavy rain and traffic after work to pick you up, just to make good on seeing a movie you told him you were excited about. expensive dinner dates and bar hopping becomes mundane when that’s the normal for you and kento, when he regularly takes you out to dinner, if not weekly, then at least bi-weekly, because he’s intentional about your friendship and having time to spend and catch-up with each other in between busy work days. it’s hard to be impressed with a boyfriend when your best-friend takes you on his twice-yearly vacations and pays for everything, citing that even though getting a proper vacation is hard, he loves the time spent with you, so it’s all worth it. kento doesn’t even have to wait for some guy to become your boyfriend, he puts any potential partners out of the running by the standards he’s already set for you. 

#anonymous #in the words of exo he did it all with a smile on his face too like he is JUST as bad as satoru!!!!! #it's always nanami respectful king this nanami the standard that--HES NOT SHIT!!! TRUST ME!!! #and say you do get a boyfriend or a partner... that poor person.... it's a wrap for them #kento doesn't even need to show how close u two are your bf is gonna feel insecure by sheer comparison and kento is going to enjoy it..sick #no wonder he and gojo are friends! birds of a feather flock together!!! #their children (megumi/yuuji/yuuta) learned this behavior from them. it was TAUGHT #the takeaway dating advice is just 'dont let someones boyfriend stop you from being their husband' 😇😇 NOT SHIT!!!!! #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk x reader #jjk fluff #jjk smut #jujutsu kaisen fluff #jujutsu kaisen smut #nanami kento x reader #kento x reader #nanami fluff #jjk scenarios #jjk imagines #nanami x reader

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 6 month anniversary of this blog! Check out these cool bugs I found.

Part 2 - Part 3

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #hollow knight #mdzs au #way too many characters to tag #'OP why?' Listen... It was either this or a Homestuck crossover. Which is still on the table btw. I've put thought into it. #Speaking of putting thought into things...I have put two full asses of effort into this. So I'm gonna talk about it in the tags. #I mapped all the major sects to hallownest clans and drew *way* more than just the characters shown here #More pertinently not shown are the Nies - Who are beetles! #The mantis clan has a lot of crossover with the Nies given the lore but I Love Mantis Wangji and you cant take him away from me. #wwx was a moth solely for his ties to Baoshen sanren (nearly forgotten sect & nearly forgotten clan) #but (HOLLOW KNIGHT SPOILERS) the ties to her radiance and the infection made for some very fun parallels #YLLZ moth 100% is puppeting husks around #JGS is a pale king expy becuase...you know....lots of children... #it also gives me a great excuse to explain wwx's soul taking mxy's body. #Still have lots and lots to say but I'm already running late! More funny - less specific to a very small population - comics to morrow! #This was more or less a style study and I learned a lot! #Thank you all for an awesome 6 months B*) You guys have pushed my way more out of my shell (pun intented) than I would- #-have ever gone had I just hidden away like I usually do. Thanks for all the support even with silly things like this <3

[soracities]

if we should protect children because they are vunerable, this means you would protect cruel children who bullies people who different than them then. the children who responsible to trauma for someone else's entire years

You're assuming that "protecting" children is the same as absolving them of responsibility and that's not what I said. All children are vulnerable, because all children are children; they don't come out of the womb with a perfectly working moral compass anymore than they come out of it waiting to hurt people--they're vulnerable because their understanding of the world is entirely at the mercy of what we, as adults, consistently tell them and show them. Children behaving cruelly aren't exempt from that--they learn that cruelty from somewhere, or someone. Your job, as the adult, is to make sure they understand that it's unacceptable so it will not happen again--but your job is also to ask why someone that young is behaving this way to begin with, so you can ensure they become better.

"Protecting" kids is not ignoring when they hurt or torment others, it's not refusing to teach them consequences or right from wrong, it's not "zero tolerance" policies in schools that treat a child being bullied and the child bullying them as equal instigators, and it's certainly not protecting them from recognizing, and atoning for, the pain they have caused someone else. You don't have to make peace with the now-adults who hurt you when you both were kids, but you cannot let the horrors of your own childhood impact how you treat or respond to the children living theirs around you right now, either.

You don't protect kids so they can get a free pass for bullying or tormenting another child. You protect them because kids are impulsive, emotionally reactive, and profoundly social (which means deeply impressionable) human beings who are still learning & processing insane amounts of information every day about what it means to be alive, to be alive as yourself, to be alive as yourself with other people. Protecting them is realising that you can't isolate the responsibility of a 10 year old from the bigger responsibility of the literal grown adults around them, adults who are in charge of teaching them about the world and how to behave in it. Whether you have children of your own in the future or not is completely irrelevant to this; we all become those adults eventually--no matter what happened to us as kids.

#ask #Anonymous #i dont want to keep repeating myself on this but we're all carrying fucked up and traumatizing childhoods to some extent and if you want to #spare another child going through the same thing the solution is not to hate on children bc they didnt ask to be born any more than the res #of us did. but they're here now and what are you going to tell them while they are? #what kind of an adult and what kind of a compass are you going to become for them during the time they're learning about being alive? #and if you decide its not your problem the minute this child says or does something fucked up and that they're a lost cause at the age of 8 #bc their impulse control is shitty and their empathy & understanding is still buffering then that is part of the problem. they learn what #they're doing is okay and then they keep doing it--to other kids and years later other adults. our world is fucked up and makes fucked up #people and if you have it in your ability to limit that damage at its most formative and dangerous point then why wouldn't you? #notes from elsewhere

[waitineedaname]

thinking about ed leading a relatively mundane life post-canon while still having all the connections he made during his time as a state alchemist is very funny to me, especially when thinking about his kids' perspectives. several high ranking military officials send them birthday gifts every year. they know four different guys who can turn into animals and this is mostly just a party trick for them. the emperor of xing is a family friend. they go to school and learn about the state alchemists and hear about the youngest state alchemist ever edward elric and they're like "you mean our fucking dad? our loser dad who can't do alchemy and consistently hits his thumb when using a hammer and has a rivalry with our pet chicken? you mean that edward elric?"

#fma #i just love the idea of his kids growing up with the WEIRDEST family connections but not thinking much of it #because it's normal to them #stealing the chicken rivalry idea from scribe because it delights me to no end #ed's children should. like all children. find their father extremely lame #but it's in an affectionate way #someday theyll learn about all the shit he did as a teen #but for most of their childhood he can just be their loser dad who they once caught kissing the emperor of xing on their couch #much to their mother's amusement

[imakemywings]

I do love Celebrimbor takes where post-death/rebirth he actually has very little to say to his family until they show some signs of remorse or personal growth from the atrocities they committed in Middle-earth.

#let him be angry!! #he left for a reason!! #and I don't think he wants comfort from a guy (MAEDHROS) who slaughtered an entire culture and killed and kidnapped children #if he's going to anyone for comfort it's cousins and other extended family #he left Curufin and Celegorm before the Second Kinslaying was even on the horizon because he couldn't defend them anymore #I cannot IMAGINE the horror of learning from a distance of the things they did after that #I honestly cannot imagine he is very interested in having a relationship with his father/uncles after this #at least not without some SERIOUS repenting on their parts #rambling #celebrimbor

[honeylemonbutte]

This is stupid but HOW did Gideon learn the "jack-off" motion? I'm trying to imagine her life on the Ninth House; just her, Harrow and a bunch of ancient and devout nuns. Most people on the ninth avoided Gideon. WHO would do it so young Gideon would parrot it? Aiglamene? Crux? ORTUS NIGENAD in a fit of personality?

#locked tomb #THIS IS SO DUMB #but like #the ninth house is dying and all the children died #gideon' s only peer was harrow #does the jack-off motion come naturally? #like instinct #maybe gideon learned it from canaan house or the cohort #imagine jod doing the jack off motion #lol i need the brain bleach

[masked-manticore]

made a lil mphfpc comic!

Everything is taken right from book one! >:) go read it if you haven't (and if you have, reread it!!!)

#MPHFPC #miss peregrine's home for peculiar children #bronwyn bruntley #horace somnusson #millard nullings #jacob portman #emma bloom #olive abroholos elephanta #comics #webtoon #sun's scribbles #trying to get into making comics but am very intimidated by anything besides the scrolling format #also an excuse for my crusty art if I learned anything from making this is I literally despise drawing at anything less than 3000x4000 #this would have never been finished if millard wasn't in 50% of the panels #mphfpc fanart

[shummthechumm]

she doodled on me till i bopped

#the doodlebops #doodlebops #the sudden primal urge i had to draw them cannot be explained #ok now onto the other like 12 quirky bands from 2000s childrens media #shumm's art #medibang paint pro #i really like how rooney came out omg #did this fucking drawing just help me learn how to draw humanoids in my style.... #digital art #drawing #nostalgia #how do i tag this #athena p..... #dont let this flop gang this took me 6 hours #moe doodle #rooney doodle #deedee doodle

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Ind. Sundown you are Everything to me

#her corruption arc... tastee #goes from naive children's show star to Absolute Bastard #sundown summer is 3'11 and it WILL steal your girl #and your man. and your partner. and your money. and your social security number #not your life tho. nah she'll have its bestie do that #scribble garnish #forced idiots <3 #oc #original character #tried out some new brushes w this one! #fucking with textures and more abstract coloring??? #im still learning!!! and experimenting!!! im not satisfied but this feels like im on the right track! #she can be yuor angle... or yuor deble.... #not even 4 ft tall and yet its rizz is off the charts #she is part of worlds weirdest lesbian throuple <3

[mando-abs]

Guys, I’ve read the Wild Robot

And let me tell you, if I hadn’t recently taken a Children’s Literature class in college, I would’ve said this was the best middle-grade book I’ve read since elementary/middle school. I almost read this book in one night (I was sleepy 😴) like I couldn’t put it down.

The heart behind this book is astounding and it never shies away from showing complex and difficult concepts. You will fall in love with Roz and her gosling son along with all of the other animal on the island.

If you’ve got younger ones, I highly recommend reading this to them or having a little book club moment with them. However, be prepared for whatever hard questions may come your way (i.e. circle of life and climate issues). You know your child and how much they can handle/understand. If you’re like me and much older, it’s a quick read and a great way to finish off a long day. It’s a part of a trilogy and you bet I’m patiently waiting for my hold on a copy at the library.

If the movie is anything like the book (which, given a rewatch of the trailer, it’s looking like so), we are in for a special treat.

#the wild robot #children’s literature #pedro pascal #did I get the book on the off chance pedro might have been casted - yes #but from what I learned in my kid lit class is that middle grade fiction in much more nuanced than ya lit today #ya lit has better potential of being good bc it has more room to work with #however ya tends to lean on tropes more heavily than middle grade #middle grade is much more focused on learning topics and issues than playing with them #making them more tightly knit #also with the decline of media literacy I think this book is a wonderful counterattack #it’s not shattering by any means but def a big step in the right direction #especially for those who have a harder time getting interested in books #and once again I’m so pleased with how carefully curated Pedro’s projects are amidst his growing stardom #he truly cares about the message and thought provoking-ness of his work #and it makes this writer/literature nerd so proud #(yes I know there’s no true messages behind his recent gladiator and marvel roles other than it sounded like fun to him but I support that #- too… the man must have his fun purely for fun’s sake)