How to treat 3rd-world girls.
DON'T ask the stupid-adult questions: "how old are you?" and anything about "school". (sadly, these are the only associations 95% of adults can come up with when around kids. PATHETIC ).
2. Acknowledge that kids are superior to adults. Health-wise, latest-generation intelligence-wise, feeling-wise, intuition-wise, living in the moment-wise. (Adults spend billions trying to get back to this ability in meditation, plastic surgery, etc.)If you see yourself as superior to a child, you're dreaming, and have illusions of grandeur, which kids sense and prefer to avoid.
3.KIDS WANT:
A. LEARNING. Kids instinctively gyrate toward the activity with highest learning potential. Bring them a musical instrument, all kinds of art skills, producing useful things, cooking, singing, dancing, tree-climbing, diving, swimming, skating, acting, hang-gliding, operating all kinds of engines, trampoline. If you offer any such skills kids will be with you naturally without any need for billion-dollar school budgets. Never REQUIRE learning, just present it. they will choose what they want. Be sure the learning is not all mental. Sitting at a desk and being forced to listen to an adult is very low quality learning and teaches mostly unwilling submission. You should spend half a day at the river (or other strong physical exercise) before sitting down to book-work. This is the optimum balance for best learning.
B. IMAGINATION. Kids love humor! mime, slapstick, pretending, street-theatre, stories, anything to expand the boring restrictions and mind-limits adults have imposed on them. Let the very young command, humiliate, and embarrass you, exaggerating your pain and fear as they laugh. The reason grown-ups submit so readily to tyranny is partly because, as kids, they were never allowed to reverse the submission-to-adults paradigm. In every encounter, expand the imagination horizons.
A child that hasn't felt love for wild animals is a poor child for life.
C. AFFECTION. Poor countries are poor because of lack of love, not lack of money. The more love you have for kids in poor countries, the more they'll learn from you, and the more you bring their society out of poverty. Kids are magnets for affection. They soak it up like flowers do water and they blossom! Learning without affection (i.e: most schools) is the learning of punishment and breeds hate and revolt, in the form of gangs, vandalism, etc.. D. A HIGHER PURPOSE. Unfortunately present society offers no higher purpose than being dumbed-down consumers. The Earthgardens will change that!
Give, give, give. All people in poor countries feel resentment that all the riches are in other countries and none for them. So they are pleased to get ANY GIFT. It's much easier to make kids in poor countries happy than in rich countries. Give wisely, not candy to sustain their sugar addiction, but healthy, educational, useful things.
With children, minds start clean. You get what you program. And that determines what kind of society you have.
Girls, more than any other social group, have brilliant contributions of imagination and creativity to offer their society. But a badly directed society can completely stifle and ruin this creativity, and this is what we have in America and worldwide today, sadly. Repressed and silenced imaginations.
Send in your questions about education and they will be answered from an Earthgardens point-of-view. The Earthgardens is a social model optimising SOCIAL HEALING, and the benefits of great minds of the age contributing to the expansion of children's minds by educational interaction.
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Q. Don't you think the George Carlin video "on children" is inappropriate for kids?
A. Kids are natural explorers of the borders of reality. The George Carlin clip shows hilarious acceptance of taboo, which is healthy.
Q. How do you remove the cult of sexuality from society?
A. By throwing your TV out the window. By featuring healthy role models instead of always violence and sex. The worst possible menu for a society of people living together is to propogate CRIME reports and NOT show the people improving their village. This daily menu of CRIME will kill a society, increasing fear, mistrust, and social division. Its first victim is imagination. Girls are punished for trusting others, for giving affection freely, for presenting ideas which aren't politic'ly-correct, for talking with strangers, for falling in love, for trying to escape a stifling life-frame and for questioning authority. All this leads to suicide. The healthy interaction between children and society is the cure for the alarming rise in child suicides in USA.
This is the cornerstone of life for benevolent people, and such people become leaders in benevolent governance.