I always enjoy and am stimulated by your through exploration of a given topic. I follow easily as you include your careful observations and self-reflections,
Perhaps I am inserting my own way of saying what I find is the essence of your message. It is this. There is no separation. Never was, never will be. Interconnectedness is accepted now environmentally and relationship thankfully is ever more seen as vital. But there is still the child (separate) in the environment (separate) when they arise together.
Here's a brief example. All children babble sounds so alike that if you stood behind a screen you could not identify them by ethnicity. And then, soon, a word in the native tongue appears. While the sensations of the words were registered in the womb, translating them into speech required a new environment. Usually we facilitate that new environment effortlessly. However, as you so carefully point out, the need gets more complex as does our cultural and personal expectations become more prominent. Confusion takes hold.
The conditioning perceiving the child as separate seems, to me, a conditioning that must be transcended. No easy task. In my opinion, experience, and actuality, It is going to require profound self knowledge that agency and interconnectedness are mutually arising. When we heal the confusion of belief in our own separation it is inevitable that we will bring forth our natural capacity to assess and create optimal conditions for well-being in children. We would not have it any other way.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reflections and continued support of my writing.
I think there is a great deal in what you say. While I don't often use the language of interconnectedness explicitly, much of what I find myself exploring seems to point in that direction. The more closely I look, the harder it becomes to separate the child from their relationships, environment, and the wider forces shaping their experience.
Perhaps my contribution is simply to make some of these dynamics more visible through everyday observations of children, parenting, and education. My hope is that greater awareness helps us question assumptions that are otherwise taken for granted and, in doing so, see children a little more clearly.
I always enjoy and am stimulated by your through exploration of a given topic. I follow easily as you include your careful observations and self-reflections,
Perhaps I am inserting my own way of saying what I find is the essence of your message. It is this. There is no separation. Never was, never will be. Interconnectedness is accepted now environmentally and relationship thankfully is ever more seen as vital. But there is still the child (separate) in the environment (separate) when they arise together.
Here's a brief example. All children babble sounds so alike that if you stood behind a screen you could not identify them by ethnicity. And then, soon, a word in the native tongue appears. While the sensations of the words were registered in the womb, translating them into speech required a new environment. Usually we facilitate that new environment effortlessly. However, as you so carefully point out, the need gets more complex as does our cultural and personal expectations become more prominent. Confusion takes hold.
The conditioning perceiving the child as separate seems, to me, a conditioning that must be transcended. No easy task. In my opinion, experience, and actuality, It is going to require profound self knowledge that agency and interconnectedness are mutually arising. When we heal the confusion of belief in our own separation it is inevitable that we will bring forth our natural capacity to assess and create optimal conditions for well-being in children. We would not have it any other way.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reflections and continued support of my writing.
I think there is a great deal in what you say. While I don't often use the language of interconnectedness explicitly, much of what I find myself exploring seems to point in that direction. The more closely I look, the harder it becomes to separate the child from their relationships, environment, and the wider forces shaping their experience.
Perhaps my contribution is simply to make some of these dynamics more visible through everyday observations of children, parenting, and education. My hope is that greater awareness helps us question assumptions that are otherwise taken for granted and, in doing so, see children a little more clearly.
Thank you for giving me more to reflect on.