Montag, 10. August 2020

97) raising children
Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com
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raising children

Educate by example! In the square in front of a church on Sunday, some well-dressed people with their children are waiting for the start of church service. A mother had just taken her baby out of the stroller and was trying to calm it down in her swaying arms. The four-year-old daughter now pushed the empty vehicle in front of her, in the direction of her father. He noticed the approaching one, took his large scarf and imitated a bullfighter. They played a few rounds with joy. The mother called the father, he looked at her and the light pram drove into him. The girl and the father laughed. The three-year-old son had seen the scene and wanted to take part, so he rode his balance bike into the girl at full speed and laughed.

The father is sitting in front of the television with a well-deserved bottle of beer to watch the football game, the mother ironing the last shirt before she sits down with him. Sometimes the father mumbles something about the game in his non-existent beard, but otherwise nothing can be heard except the TV turned on. The children are already in bed. The mother: “Our children sleep like angels!” If the children carry on like this, they will become just as inactive as their angelic father is.

A small child in a stroller is screaming. That is its form of expression. It saw something and wants it. If the parents don't want to give it to him, they say, “the baby's a bit whimpering, I'm sure it's tired!” They put it to bed. Sleep becomes a punishment here, even though it should be a pleasure to be able to relax.

He was a pretty good athlete once, won various smaller competitions. However, when he failed to make the leap to becoming a professional athlete, he stopped training and became a coach himself. Today, like his old trainer, he stands with a fat belly on the edge and yells at the children what to do. The children might think: "Will we look the same one day if we continue training like this?"

A child asks his father: “Daddy! Why is it raining? ”-“ My dear son! How long is the longest ladder in grandfather's orchard? ” “About ten times as tall as me.” “And how high is the sky?” “Maybe a hundred times.” “No, a thousand times!” “Oh, the sky is so high!” “You see! And that's why the raindrops have to jump down if they want to get to the ground.” “Daddy! Do you mind if I ask so many questions?” “No, my son! You have to learn something! And if you study hard, you will become as smart as me."

A boy bites down his fingernails. It doesn't matter as long as he’s small, but when he starts getting interested in girls at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he only bites his nails when he’s alone. An adult suggests to the young person to imagine that someone is always watching him. First, the young person makes a couple of dummy cameras out of paper and sets them up in his room to get used to the idea. And after a short time his fingernails grow so that he has to cut them. But he now has the cameras in his head and feels that he is being watched everywhere and all the time.


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