Children Are People Too.

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
But that's not what this is about. This is about why our idea of a eutopia is chaos. This is about why our world is slowly turning corrupt. This is about why our world is starting to be neglected of all the beautiful things. You rarely see beautiful things on the news anymore. It seems like today all we ever see featured on TV is chaos.
Chaos caused by who? Adults? Or kids?
We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child.
I'm not worried about kids. I'm worried about grown-ups, okay? These are the ones who vote. These are the ones who tell you, "the world is coming to an end in 2012!" Kids don't say that, grown-ups do.
I'm worried about grown-ups who say. "read my horoscope! Tell me whether I'll find money tomorrow!" Grown-ups say this, not children.
Children are perfectly happy counting through the number 13. Children are not afraid to walk under ladders. They see a black cat cross their path, they say, "Ooh, little kitty kitty!" They want to pet it, not run in the other direction. Children are not the problem here.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of the top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that adults have lost long ago.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save. The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." Mark 10:14
"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. " Proverbs 22:6
But nonetheless, you still prove everything that you've taught us wrong. You tell us that war is bad, but yet you iniciate it. You tell us that sharing is caring, but yet, you don't reach out to the other side of the world. You tell us that we should treat elders with respect, but what about the respect for us? Is is not a mutual thing?
Is that the way that you choose to teach us? To communicate with us in forms of overexaggerations, biases, and lies?
Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.
So no matter what you say to that child, all they'll listen to are your actions. They pay close attention to that. They learn best through their parents. And if their parents are the kind that say one thing, and do a completely another thing? Well, we know not what children will become, but look to their parents, and that's exactly who they'll grow up to be. "What is the son but an extension of the father?" - Frank Herbert
Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history. So who's going to be the role models for us? But it seems like we are just going to be forced to be our own role models.
But what does it matter? I'm a child. And a child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.