Teach them to feel

If you want to change the world and prevent the madness, teach the children about their feelings so they will respect and understand them.

While you are educating their minds, you must also educate their hearts. Stop glorifying violent action and praise the tender-hearted innocence of children.

Teach them it is okay to be afraid, to feel confused, and to cry. Help them understand that it is okay to be who they are and as they are without judgment or criticism.

Teach them that they possess all the answers and not to judge what they feel, but only see it as a doorway to discovering who they are.

Cherish the uniqueness within them and by all means allow them to fail, because true learning comes from failure. Allow them to bond within again to eternity while it is still fresh within their awareness.

Do not pound the magic out of them with rules, commandments, and regulations that are poison to their innocence.

Do not drive them away from the source of their inspiration or the love of self within them. When you drive a child away from all that is good and true within them, you isolate them from the very best part of who they are and who they can become.

Do not distort reality through perversion of their imagination with false hopes, or the borrowed dreams of others. Let them respect who they are without fear of reprimand or judgment.

Above all, do not break their spirit, because they did not pass a test or remember all the presidents. What does that have to do with life?

If you do not teach a child to love themselves early, or to feel and recognize the love within them, they will make a lifetime of errors in judgment. This begins when they forget how to feel and only think.