{"id":2788,"date":"2012-11-27T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2012-11-27T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:44:50","slug":"children-reflect-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/11\/27\/children-reflect-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Children reflect human nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone gets in your face, like touching your body, what is your first reaction?<\/p>\n<p>Push them away.  What will you do?  Maybe step back, maybe say &#8220;excuse me!&#8221; maybe punch them, maybe swallow and do nothing, right?  It depends.<\/p>\n<p>If a 4 year old is in another 4 year old&#8217;s way, I am 100% convinced they will give them a shove.  They kept shoving each other today, and one kid got hurt. -_-; We are trained not to be so violent, as adults.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my day-care kids made me think a lot. It was a rough two lessons.  In the first, TWO kids just would NOT stop crying.  One boy was crying and screaming and hitting himself on the head?!  I was like, &#8220;Holy sh*t, is he okay?! Is he disturbed?!&#8221;  He&#8217;s always had problems in the past, where he&#8217;d go sit in a corner and cry if the teacher tried to drag him out. A Facebook friend suggested he has autism&#8230;. yeah.  I think so.<\/p>\n<p>And if someone pisses you off, you want to smack them, right?  Kids have no inhibitions.  Until they&#8217;re trained that you can&#8217;t go around smacking people.  It&#8217;s <strike>our job <\/strike> my job to teach them this.<\/p>\n<p>And how can I get mad if *I* get smacked?  Or groped?  I mean, they don&#8217;t have common sense yet because we haven&#8217;t instilled it in them yet.<\/p>\n<p>Observing their behavior really made me think today.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nChildren reflect pure human nature before they are molded by the society they live in. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> You want something?  Make noise and try to get it.  You&#8217;re mad, you lash out.  It&#8217;s not like these things go away as adults.  We are trained in certain ways to deal with our own nature. <\/p>\n<p>We also must learn to deal with how other people deal with things.  It&#8217;s all very fascinating.  I think one way of being considerate to our fellow man is to realize how our own behavior effects others.  If I gave one kid a turn, everyone else wants a turn, and they cry if they can&#8217;t have it.  Of course adults feel this way, too!  But they  may justify it to try and make themselves believe it doesn&#8217;t bother them.  &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want it anyway.&#8221;  or &#8220;That person is a jerk, whatever.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>That is higher level thinking that children are physically incapable of until a certain age.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we learn so much about our nature by watching children.  Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone gets in your face, like touching your body, what is your first reaction? Push them away. What will you do? Maybe step back, maybe say &#8220;excuse me!&#8221; maybe punch them, maybe swallow and do nothing, right? It depends. If a 4 year old is in another 4 year old&#8217;s way, I am 100%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-13","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}