Are we to be imitators of old ideas..or inovators of new better ideas?

by The Dragon 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  The Dragon

  Be getting alot of static about throwing out new ideas by those imitating and following the old ones. Is the game of life about follow or fail..or lead and excell? Should I discourge and intimidate my kids into doing as I do instead of coming up with their own ideas?

  Any thoughts?
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  Madame Quixote

  Stifle your kids' growth and development and deny them the best future they can have?

  Do you really need an answer from anyone here to that question?

  Why would anyone willingly pass that kind of joylessness on to their kids?

  Are you getting "static" from JWs?

  Hon, there are better ways to be a parent than the JW way. They know nothing about child development, healthy parenting, or healthy living, for that matter.

  Please, seek help from outside sources on this matter; your kids deserve better than what you and I got, which was stifling and misery from the bOrg.
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  Narkissos

  You can only teach the "old things".

  You cannot teach disobedience.

  But you may smile when it happens.
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  Madame Quixote

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  Children Learn What They Live
  If children live with criticism,
  they learn to condemn.
  If children live with hostility,
  they learn to fight.
  If children live with ridicule,
  they learn to be shy.
  If children live with tolerance,
  they learn to be patient.
  If children live with encouragement,
  they learn confidence.
  If children live with praise,
  they learn to appreciate.
  If children live with fairness,
  they learn justice.
  If children live with security,
  they learn faith.
  If children live with approval,
  they learn to like themselves.
  If children live with acceptance, and friendship,
  they learn to find love in the world.

  Author Unknown

  Thinking is a skill ... it can be taught.
  Thirteen essential thinking skills:
  Observing
  Comparing
  Classifying
  Imagining
  Hypothesizing
  Criticizing
  Looking for Assumptions
  Collecting and Organizing Data
  Summarizing
  Coding
  Interpreting
  Problem Solving
  Decision Making
  Author Unknown

  
  

  Behavior Labeling

  If an adult is reinforced for behaving appropriately we call it

  recognition.

  If a child is reinforced for behaving appropriately we call it

  bribery.

  If an adult laughs, we call it socializing.

  If a child laughs, we call it misbehaving.

  If an adult writes in a book we call it doodling.

  If a child writes in a book we call it destroying property.

  If an adult sticks to something we call it perseverance.

  If a child sticks to something we call it stubbornness.

  If an adult seeks help we call it consulting.

  If a child seeks help we call it whining.

  If an adult is not paying attention we call it preoccupation.

  If a child is not paying attention we call it distractibility.

  If an adult forgets something we call it absentmindedness.

  If a child forgets something we call it attention deficit.

  If an adult tells his side of a story we call it clarification.

  If a child tells his side of a story we call it talking back.

  If an adult raises his voice in anger we call it maintaining control.

  If a child raises his voice in anger we call it a temper tantrum.

  If an adult hits a child we call it discipline.

  If a child hits a child we call it fighting.

  If an adult behaves in an unusual way we call him unique.

  If a child behaves in an unusual way we refer him for a

  psychological evaluation.
  

  Written by Dixie Fletcher

  Reprinted from "Throughout Arizona," published by Pilot Parent Partnerships, Inc.

  
  

  I Know Everything

  There is something I don't know
  that I am supposed to know.
  I don't know what it is I don't know,
  and yet I am supposed to know,
  And I feel I look stupid
  if I seem both not to know it
  and not know what it is I don't know.
  Therefore, I pretend I know it.
  There is nerve-wracking since I don't know
  what I must pretend to know.
  Therefore, I pretend I know everything

  R. D. Laing, "Knots" (1970)

  
  

  The Average Child
  
  I don't cause teachers trouble
  my grades have been okay.
  I listen in my classes
  and I'm in school everyday.

  My teachers think I'm average,
  my parents think so too.
  I wish I didn't know that
  cause there's lots I'd like to do.

  I would like to build a rocket
  I have a book that tells you how,
  or start a stamp collection
  well no use in trying now.

  Cause since I found I'm average
  I'm just smart enough you see
  to know there is nothing special
  that I should expect of me.

  I am part of the majority,
  that hump part of the bell,
  who spends his life unnoticed
  in an average kind of hell.

  Mike Buscemi

  
  
  Unity Poem

  I dreamed I stood in a studio
  and watched two sculptors there
  The clay they used was
  a young child's mind
  And they fashioned it with care

  One was a teacher:
  the tools that were used were
  books, music, and art.
  One was a parent
  with a guiding hand and a gentle, loving heart

  Day after day the teacher toiled
  with a touch that was deft and sure,
  While the parent labored side by side
  and polished and smoothed it o'er.

  And when at last the task was done
  They were proud of what they had wrought.
  For the things they had molded into the child,
  Could never be forgot.

  And they agreed each would have failed
  If either had worked alone.
  For behind the parent stood the school,
  and behind the teacher, the home.

  Author Unknown

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