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dropping knowledge

While cruising around blog explosion this evening I came across a link to this site. It's an interesting one which I found myself spending a bit of time at, registering and then submitting my own questions! Anyway I came across one that I thought I would use it as blog fodder this evening....I don't consider it cheating, as the site it being used to promote open discussion and opinions on whatever you choose. I really like the idea and may just make a regular thing of this. When I submitted my questions they were up to 6092 of them, so there are plenty to choose from! Why not take a peak and see what grabs your attention.

When will what the children say, matter?

Children view the world in such a completely different perspective than we do. Everyone is a friend until they prove otherwise. They can see the simplistic beauty in everything, from a butterfly, to a hug. Everything is wondrous and fun. Hate, bias, prejudice, bitterness and intolerance are not a part of their vocabulary or thought process. Isn't that a great way to live? How different would this world be if we kept those same ideals throughout our adult life? Whose to say that a child's perceptions, ideas and thoughts are not as valid or more appropriate than us grownups? We are all guilty of dismissing what children say. On small matters and big ones. The questions in particular that I deal with from Zoe can at times floor me. And it won't be till I'm laying in bed wondering about why I couldn't answer that I realise that if we took notice of what children thought, this world might be a better place in a lot of respects. "Why are there wars mum? War is silly" is one example. On the surface it's easy to dismiss such a basic thought as that of a person who doesn't know about LIFE yet. But you know what? I couldn't answer her satisfactorily, and think she's onto something with her simple statement. Lets face it, war IS silly.

Children are also the future, so don't they have a right to have a say in what kind of world they will live in? In order for that to happen, we need to listen to them. And what they say will HAVE to matter. I know that many will dismiss me and say that children don't know anything, they don't understand how it really is. But so what? There are many different societies living in this world, sometimes cohesively, sometimes not, that view and perceive it in such different ways that to an alien, it must almost appear as though we are completely different species! Consider children just another kind of society. With different points of view, beliefs and ideas. Why shouldn't what they think matter?

Let me know what your thoughts are...I've deliberately left huge holes in this discussion in an attempt to draw you, the reader, into it!