Lessons From The Playground: Kids Say The Most Amazing Things
Life lessons: can we ever be like kids again?
As a playground supervisor, I sometimes have to step in when I witness some rough playing or kids bickering over some issues. Sometimes, a child can come up and complain about not having a turn on the swing, or a child may have said a mean word to another child. I am there to listen, to mediate, and offer a solution.
Sometimes I say to the kids to quit fighting, and just be friends. Many times, I have one child apologize to the other child to resolve the dispute.
One time a child was eating her lunch when she noticed her classmate watching her. Without a beat, she said out loud, “What are you looking at, dude? You got your own food. Quit staring.”
We teach our kids not to fight, bully and act aggressively towards each other. Kids learn very quickly how to express themselves, and seem to mimic adults.
But as they grow up, they will know about everything happening in the world and find out that there are countries with leaders who threaten other countries with weapons of mass destruction. It is a scary world for young children to enter.
What happened to our inner child, our innocent voices, where all we ever wanted was love and acceptance?
Nowadays children are witnesses to wars, shootings and learn about guns and violence through video games and movies.
We all want our kids to grow up to be kind, loving, and active members of society. But how do we explain to kids that we live in a crazy world, connected by countries where some leaders believe in harming their own citizens and don’t think twice about invading its neighboring country?
Today, I heard a Russian missile hit a maternity ward in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a stark reminder that political bullying, acts of aggression, violence, and death by weaponry are a horrifying reality for millions of adults and children in that region.
Several weeks ago, a small child was crying in the playground because he got hurt playing soccer. I tried to make him feel better. I looked at his innocent face and hoped that kids like him would never experience sadness in their lives. All they ever want is happiness and love.
Why can’t we give peace a chance, Lennon sang.
Perhaps with advances in genome research, scientists may be able to isolate the gene in us that makes some humans want to act aggressively towards each other.
Elon Musk, the maverick maker of the eco-friendly car company Tesla Motors, now wants to colonize another planet with people. Some day with our need to control everything, I see this happening: the colonization of some planet.
But should we do this? Do we really want to take over another planet when it could be a new territory for new wars, and new threats of aggression?
Thanks to fiction writers like George Orwell, we have been warned about man’s inhumanity to man through his satire, Animal Farm. Readers will find a world with talking animals, but it is more than that. It is a place where freedom is being attacked. This book was ranked the most popular book from school in 2016 in a UK poll.
War is not good for any one -man, woman, or child. Or animals. I can only pray that the world will come to its senses — hopefully, soon.
Til next time.
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