BEYOND HONOR STUDENTS

My child is an honor student...and so is yours. And that is the truth of things. All children are honor students. Why not?

All children, including us, belong here. They didn't come here to make trouble, or cause disturbance, to be mean, to be labeled slow, to constantly be compared to others, or even be required to compete against friends.

This is another perspective on life and children, and since it is my perspective, I like it a lot. Children are not deficient in anything, except maybe some specific vitamin....deficiency is someone elses' belief of what should be.

Could it be that children, including us at one time, maybe even now, simply want to connect with others, to use themselves in their own way.... a way that is creative, of value to others and ultimately appreciated for who they are inside, not how they perform for the recognition of others?

It seems, and probably really true, that what the world requires now is the ability for children and big people to see through not only their own eyes, but through the eyes of others ….to care about relationship more than being right, to feel comfortable with difference, and to value trusting oneself – thus, possibly avoiding the next war, or belief that “they” or “them” out there are an enemy.

Maybe even the people closest to us don’t need to change either. Maybe the change is ours.