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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.