Saturday geniuses
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." -R. Buckminster Fuller
Marce's take
It's true. Kids really have simple, but GOOD solutions to things: everything from fixing the car to getting along. We adults just get things complicated. I really am afraid sometimes I'm making that mistake with my kids; being a lawyer sometimes muddles my common sense. I know it's my responsibility to teach my children how to think.....but not necessarily to think as Emil and I do. What really screwed both of us up as kids was being forced to conform to certain ways of thinking; it nearly killed us in various ways. So I want to let Andrei and Alix be, but not *too* often. But when to stop? When to begin?
Marce's take
It's true. Kids really have simple, but GOOD solutions to things: everything from fixing the car to getting along. We adults just get things complicated. I really am afraid sometimes I'm making that mistake with my kids; being a lawyer sometimes muddles my common sense. I know it's my responsibility to teach my children how to think.....but not necessarily to think as Emil and I do. What really screwed both of us up as kids was being forced to conform to certain ways of thinking; it nearly killed us in various ways. So I want to let Andrei and Alix be, but not *too* often. But when to stop? When to begin?