Letting them think

I have often wondered why do we have such a great urge to TEACH children - to tell them what we already know - to push our GYAN onto them - to not let them think on their own - but to give them ready made solutions.....

Once mullah nasiruddin went to a money lender and asked for a loan. The moneylender asked him, "Why you want the money?"
Mullah replied, " I have a pet elephant I need to feed him daily"
The moneylender almost became annoyed and said, "If you do not have money, why keep an elephant for a pet?"
Mullah, getting up, replied, "I came for money, not for advise"

So, why .......?

Maybe because

we fulfill ourselves by filling others

your thoughts

Potential

Its easy to count the seeds in an apple
the trick is to be able to count the number of apples in a seed.

thats what potential is all about - much like our extensive discussion on implication of MI to us as parents/ teachers - about defining our role as a parent - about accepting the child and exposing the child so that the child can "realise his potential"

I append the greatest poem from Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

regards
ratnesh

Change the way you see, to change the way you be

Thtas is what happens when we try and put our judgement on way children do things.