All these times, i was only told,”bla bla boa…” are representative of children characteristics. Till i had my own, and i realised much are stereotypes, and become somewhat generally accepted. While on the other hand, i notice some other characteristics which are meaningful and yet have never been mentioned. So just thought it’s fun and insightful to share here:
1. Children are pure.
When a child was born, they don’t have any discrimination / prejudice / bias against anybody. To them, everyone are the same (just like God). They don’t judge people by the colour of their skins, or by the race, marks on their bodies, or even what we call “abnormalities.”
I have observed this so many times with my daughter. Facing the “less” abled people, she smile at them the same, to the bankers and aunties cleaning the table, she smiled the same too. To the elderly rubbish collector, she asked me to help, and she greeted bunch of guys with tattoo. And the last encounter to confirm this, when we meet a stranger on public transport, she smiled at her…and straight away this person commented, that it’s parents who taught children judgment on skin, race, education, social, job, etc. But when a child was born into this world, they don’t have any value judgment.
2. Children are honest
This is also something interesting that i observed from my girl. There’re times she did wrong. And when being asked, her answer is straight “yes” or “no”. She hasn’t developed yet the thinking to tell lies to escape punishment. So when she’s being honest and being punished, it is kind cute to see her expression. Yet i learn something from this character, when Jesus said “let your yes be yes and your no be no”….he’s probably has a child in his mind.
3. Children are trusting
This i think is common knowledge. And again, i really love this attitude. She 100% trusting me for whatever i said. She never question me (yet), or argue with me. Give means give, there’s is no withholding.
4. Children are communal
To some degree, our girl hasn’t developed sense of personal belongings yet. So whatever things belong to her is open for other people to play. And similarly, other people things belong to her 🙂 This waited to be confirmed. But there are 4 things mentioned above on children ‘s characteristics