Friday, January 29, 2016

Children learn with all their senses, and their hands.



People, in general, learn in very different ways, yet they can all be taught to use and master a single method of doing anything. 

For some reason, modern parents are raising self-involved, prejudice and judgmental children, who feel entitled to having their every need supplied for free. And some get angry if they're denied.

There is one thing that's different and could be causing some of this shift in humanity. One could tell most any child to stop doing something, and the child most likely will have to be told again. That's children; their entire first 20 years is learning boundaries and everything they see, hear, or experience, all while trying to learn the rules of how to live.

In the USA in the early 1950's, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who didn't attend some kind of church. Now it's flipped somewhat, with the majority not attending any church, anymore. Many children are barely parented from birth, due to addictions, parents who are still children themselves, and mental illness. This is not a conclusive list by any means, but you must get my drift.

You can tell a kid three rules to obey, or a character story, and they may remember one of the rules and over time the story goes away, too. We need a way to teach kids so they don't forget; or, at least not so fast.

You can read a story and simultaneously do something creative with a child, the child experiences with senses more than just eyes and ears, and the information is likely to be retained longer because the child now (and forever) knows what to do with the clay. 

Teaching children something with a story-coordinating craft project makes them proud of something cool they did, and they'll remember the story of what they made every time they show it to someone. 

The stories would have to be of a certain caliber to be worthy of repeating to forming minds, and they must contain teaching that applies to their little lives today, but still apply in the same way as in olden times. Stories that teach people how to be decent, productive citizens, who know what discipline is and why it is necessary. Stories about what it means about them when they act out, purposefully break a rule, or tell a fib.

No matter what "religion" a person claims themselves to be, we all believe in a God. Because of the nearing of the End of Times, Christians are teaching out of the New Testament only, and modern children know Jesus, but they don't even know who Adam and Eve are, or Noah, or David and Goliath. 

The list of useful upcoming stories is endless, especially if people of every group just end up turning to a religion called, "Love Each Other." We don't have to carry any labels; just people all learning what to do in the same room (country, continent, etc.).

Even a child who is not Christian can still benefit from the stories of the Old Testament; especially if they make something to take home that went along with the story of the day. They'll show it to people and they'll talk about it - lesson learned.

Nobody's going to feel singled out because of their beliefs, we don't care what you wear or how many times you pray. We encourage it, in fact. However, to prevent children's confusion every religion's god will be called "The Maker." That pretty much covers them all, correct? 

It's not the craft, or story being spread, so much as it is that these ancient stories build character and teach a person how to be dedicated and how to protect each other, thinking communally as a unit, no matter what beliefs or language used. Everyone in this class is the same while they are in the classroom.

The First weekly class will be the story of Adam and Eve, and why rules are made to protect us, and that discipline can not only follow, but ruin everything in one's life. The craft will be the planting of a bean into a tiny pot that the child needs to care for. This will represent planting in the Garden of Eden, then I'll take them away from the kids for getting kicked out of Eden. 


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