Teach your children well, and for the others?
You take any Wednesday and figure out what you are going to do with it. My morning started with going into Tin’s nursery like many Jewish mothers do and presenting Hanukkah to the uninitiated. It’s not about presents, it’s about telling history and remembering. The story of Judah Maccabee and the liberation of Jewish belief. It doesn’t really translate to nursery kids but it is nonetheless the story.
I then came home and worked on a project with Blueshift, the company I have aligned with to continue to do the work that I love with people I love. Refreshing.
And then I went to the Steiner study group that is reading Education as a Force for Social Change. And we spoke about Steiner’s vision of how economy has been built around competition instead of cooperation and perpetuated by academics in universities who teach what is doctrine and make it more so. And we talked about how there were these single cell organisms in the water and they decided to cooperate and through that decision came human beings as we know them today. Not through competition but through cooperation these cells got together and created everything that we know of human life today.
Tin had a tough day today. He didn’t appreciate the gift he received at Hanukkah. And he didn’t appreciate the friend who stopped to give him a gift. It was disconcerting to say the least. I polled parents, I searched the web and the answer was always the same, don’t give too many gifts (we don’t), expect your child to say thank you (we do), and help them to understand that this is important but give it to them in small doses because they are small.
Then I came home and put the covers on Tin and learned that another young black man was shot dead in the middle of the day. To think that this has no effect on all of us is ludicrous. And so, what are we going to do is the question. Someone commented on Facebook that it is the mentoring that is lacking for these young boys. Yes, it is, and …