Innocence

Hi, my name is Illa and I have absolutely devoted my life to creating an energy when working with children, either through coaching them or teaching them of self respect and recognising who they really are.  Let me share an interesting story with you.  I have faciliated working through with children for years now and I have never known once for a child to not be able to show love.  So what changes from an innocent 4 year old to a child who grows up feeling hatred and then being labelled as disruptive, badly behaved and uncontrollable

I am going to tell you a story about a little boy who absolutely touched my heart and who is the one who has kindled me to wake up and be the voice for children.  As a baby this little boy was the most loving child ever, he never cried, he never threw tantrums and he was so engrossed in the mecanics of how amplifiers and electronic gadgets work.  He created "live" wires out of rope and amplifiers out of cardboard boxes.

For name sake i am going to call him Ram, Ram was a very content little boy and seemed to not have a care in the world about anything but what I can only call pure love and joy.  The most interesting image was how he got everybody to interact with him in "his" world, he was three then, so he was really cute, in the eyes of the adult.

As he turned 4, curioisity in him took over, he was ready to explore, in his world "the unknown", where this should have a time of learning, it became the time for critisism for him....a constant "dont do this and dont do that, and stop this and stop that, and go away, some other new child is sleeping and your disturbing him"

What do you think that this could make a child feel, after all he does not know anything but pure love and joy, so who has taught him the negative language?

Has he grew to be five, this young vibrant little boy was separated from his mother........where he saw his world to be pure love and joy had now become disillusioned with those words.

Does this pure being who really understands what pure love and joy really is, like nobody in the adultword could, become completely disarrayed, disillusioned by what his world really means.

He wants to get that feeling of just being back so in that search follows the people that should be showing him the real path and instead take him completely away from it.

Should we not as adults learn from them rather than them changing their perception and becoming insecure and lacking in confidence.  Are we not to blame for the changes that they feel they have to adopt because of one word and one word only "TRUST".  These little beings trust us to show and nurture their pureness and instead what do we do, we break them and take them completely away from who they really are ...a pure light of love and joy.

So I ask you the question: are kids really to blame?