Some things that you can learn from todays children

We always perceive children as naive and dumb, and they don't really know much about anything.  But my attitude has changed about children when I was helping out with younger children at a church.  They tend to be nor that much different than the adults in many ways, even though they may be children.

One thing I had noticed that children tend to have unique personalities and identities, just like adults.  I always thought children are all the same, but they have their differences as well.  They have their interests and talents as well, even though they may be children.

I see a few outgoing, brassy, children and I seen shy children.  I also seen neat freaks and ones that are very athletic.  I seen musical children that have good singing voices and very athletic children that have a lot of stamina.  I don't think they are not much different than the adults in many ways and many children start discovering their true talents and personalities at a young age.  I have a second cousin, even at the age of 2, has a passionate love for animals and nature.  He loves to look at the birds and the other animals outside.  I even had  a passion for music as early as the age of 3, when I watched my mom play the piano and I loved to bang on Tupperware boxes and pots and pans.  I always was fascinated with the radio and like to play with the radio and the record player.

Children are not as dumb as you think you are and they have some pretty interesting ideas on things.  Sometimes the adults might not be the most intelligent.  Adults learn how to discriminate and be prejudiced amongst  one another; they have social anxiety and they tend to have a lot of disagreements. Adults could hold grudges for decades, bur children usually get over fights very quick.

When children see other children, no matter what race, nationality, religion, socioeconomic background, whatever, they will play with each other and talk to each other because they are just a lot of fun.  Adults have different ideas and they will judge each other.   But even if the adults think like the kids and get to know people because they are a lot of fun, the world will be a better place.  But children tend to be prejudice with gender and they have strict gender roles, while adults tend to agree with gender deviance.  Girls are girls and boys are boys.

Kids also have relationships, but they tend to be less picky than the adults.  They adult have to have their soul mate, while little boys will like any girl because she is nice and a lot of fun.