At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children always turn to the light.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.