[MD] Teach your Children Good

[Mary]

The right belief to teach them is belief in themselves and belief in the
power of the open mind.  We are all children of Quality.  Do we not know it
when we see it?  Dogma is like putting blinders on a horse so that they
cannot see side to side.  Teach them instead to see in all directions.

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created of Quality.
Even Lila.

Mary


On Behalf Of John Carl
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:48 AM
> 
> You
> who are on the road
> Must have a code that you can live by
> And so
> become yourself
> Because the past is just a good-bye
> 
> Don't inflict your belief systems upon their little minds for your own
> purposes, tho.  Mary will accuse you of child abuse.
> 
> It's something that's been rolling around in my echoing skull, ever
> since
> Mary postulated the idea that teaching little kids about Jesus in
> Sunday
> School is child abuse.
> 
> You have to admire the rhetorical effect of such a statement!  It's
> really
> stayed with me.  Mainly because I want to argue with it.  But first, I
> have
> to come to grips with it and acknowledge the part of the statement that
> is
> true.  True because the past is, just a goodbye and forcing kids into
> seats
> they don't wanna sit in, to listen to crap they've heard a hundred
> times
> before, week in, week out....
> 
> Well if it's not child abuse, it sure feels like it to the child.
> 
> Teach your children well
> Their father's hell
> Will slowly go by
> And feed them on your dreams
> The one they pick
> The one you'll know by.
> 
> 
> Now I considered the counter proposition, that forcing them to be
> atheists
> before their little minds can even cope with metaphysics, because
> you've got
> some agenda or purpose of your own, is also child abuse.  I'd say any
> infliction of a parent's problems upon the next generation, simply for
> the
> purpose of ameliorating some life-problem of the parent, is a good
> starting
> proposal for this particular defined form of "child abuse" that we're
> discussing.
> 
> It's not all about beating them with cords cuz of the poopy diaper
> screaming.  Using them to prop up your own side of a battle with your
> spouse, would also be child abuse, no?
> 
> And on those terms, we're all guilty.  I mean, I know I am.  And I see
> it
> all around me.
> 
> 
> Don't you ever ask them why
> If they told you, you would cry
> So just look at them and sigh
> And know they love you.
> 
> 
>  So here's the ideal I came up with while ruminating on Mother's Day,
> while
> doing the dishes.
> 
> (shout out to Lu, man, I hate doing the dishes and its embarrassing
> whinging
> at a task you perform about a hundred times a year)
> 
> (shout out to George Sessions - You were right, doing dishes is a good
> time
> for meditation)(
> 
> Our children need some sort of structure with which to build a life, a
> self,
> a plan.  They get that from us first.  As a parent, its our task to pay
> attention and do this the best we can; which is NOT handing them over
> to
> some institution, simply because we're lazy and don't wanna face our
> task.
>  Or even worse, plopping them in front of a tv.  Owning a tv IS child
> abuse.
> 
> 
> So we give them the best structure we can, but add the caveat that its
> only
> relative to our understanding and world.  And they are going to have to
> figure out for themselves one day, how to view the world.  To awaken
> our
> children early on to taking moral responsibility for themselves, for
> paying
> attention to what is out there, not by forcing it upon them in church
> or
> school, but honestly and with all sincerity admitting that we don't
> know
> everything.  Maybe there is a God.  Maybe there is not.  Such questions
> seems almost by definition to be way beyond me.  All I can say is what
> works
> for me right now, in the moment.
> 
> You, my children, must penetrate such mysteries for yourself.
> 
> And you, of tender years
> Can't know the fears
> That your elders grew by
> And so please help them with your youth
> They seek the truth
> Before they can die.
>   ....
> 
> 
> 
>   And feed them on your dreams
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