When you learn as a three year old that you mum can't be trusted, when you recognize at the age of five that your Sunday school teacher is a hypocrite and when you see that at the age of six your teachers are bullies, all this after your earliest childhood sounds are those of sirens and bombs while sitting in a bomb shelter you don't have to get sick before reaching all these conclusions.
When you learn as a three year old that you mum can't be trusted, when you recognize at the age of five that your Sunday school teacher is a hypocrite and when you see that at the age of six your teachers are bullies, all this after your earliest childhood sounds are those of sirens and bombs while sitting in a bomb shelter you don't have to get sick before reaching all these conclusions.
Some of us need to be practically knocked out before we learn. But then it's not so much what happens but what you do with what happens that matters. We've all heard stories of people who credit their traumatic childhoods for their success -- and those who blame it for their failures.
Thank you for this. Yes, my early childhood taught me to be strong, reliable, compassionate and successful because it came from within myself. What parents do wrong today is shielding their children too much from any disappointments or letting them learn how to cope with failures. Because they become adults who believe 'the world owes to them' they cannot learn compassion for others. How otherwise could so many professionals look on and contribute to the suffering that the last 5 years caused without trying to stop it.
When you learn as a three year old that you mum can't be trusted, when you recognize at the age of five that your Sunday school teacher is a hypocrite and when you see that at the age of six your teachers are bullies, all this after your earliest childhood sounds are those of sirens and bombs while sitting in a bomb shelter you don't have to get sick before reaching all these conclusions.
Some of us need to be practically knocked out before we learn. But then it's not so much what happens but what you do with what happens that matters. We've all heard stories of people who credit their traumatic childhoods for their success -- and those who blame it for their failures.
Thank you for this. Yes, my early childhood taught me to be strong, reliable, compassionate and successful because it came from within myself. What parents do wrong today is shielding their children too much from any disappointments or letting them learn how to cope with failures. Because they become adults who believe 'the world owes to them' they cannot learn compassion for others. How otherwise could so many professionals look on and contribute to the suffering that the last 5 years caused without trying to stop it.