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April 27, 2008
Breaking a 'Golden rule'
A five year old friend of mine came home from school and told his mum that he'd been told off for breaking a 'Golden rule', his mum found out later that he had taken the written form of this rule off the wall and torn it up, when asked why he did this his answer was simple it was because he didn't like it. What was the rule that caused his upset? It was 'We must work hard at all times' personally i admire his balls, how i wish that when i was his age i could have torn up the rules that adults made for me!
Of course children need boundaries, but they also need to understand why they are there and the 'rules' chosen need to be meaningful to the child.
Rules that are made up by adults for children in order to make their own lives easier just don't make any sense and deserve to end up in bits all over the floor!
Posted by Shelliz at April 27, 2008 05:30 PM