'Parents often think that they are here to guide the little ones. When - in reality - the little ones come forth with clarity to guide you.' Abraham-Hicks - Excerpted from a workshop in Orlando, FL on Saturday, February 15th, 1997
'The children desire freedom! And every particle of their being from their Source says, “You are free. You are so free, that every thought you offer, the entire Universe jumps to respond to it.” And so, to take that kind of knowledge and try to confine it in any way, defies the Laws of the Universe. You must allow your children to be free, because the entire Universe is set up to accommodate that. And anything you do to the contrary will only bring you regret. You cannot contain those that cannot be contained. It defies Law.' Abraham-Hicks - Excerpted from a workshop in Atlanta, GA on Sunday, September 19th, 1999
'Oh, it is so delicious! When you have an environment where children feel free, where they get to choose, and you are brave enough to ride it out... In other words, at first they'll choose all of the things that you have been convinced are wrong... But when you are brave enough to let it go far enough that they actually do identify their own personal desire, and then you stand as the loving implementer of their desire -- you would never go back to any other form. The other never worked. It doesn't work even a little bit. It doesn't work at all. Not even a little bit.' Abraham-Hicks - Excerpted from a workshop in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, March 17th, 2001
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I first took Sunnyboy to our city fireworks display when he was two and a half months old and we've been every year since. Last year we arrived and found a place to stand among the crowd of 25,000 people, then I looked to the right and discovered we were standing next to our friends Daze and T. This year we decided to go together. T couldn't make it but Daze called round for us and we walked into town to watch the fireworks with him.
Corner View is hosted by Spain Daily and we are invited to post pictures telling the stories of our different lives and cultures. This week's theme is Contrasts.
Light and Dark (July 2009)
Big and Small (April 2009)
Near and Far (September 2009)
Jane from Spain Daily is away travelling for a few weeks so Corner View will be hosted by Dana at Lumignano: Home Base. Corner Views from around the world:
On Monday our local home education group met up at a nearby Country Park. We were just leaving to go and catch the bus to get there when Little Friend and Little Friend's Mum came round for a surprise visit. So they decided to come to the home education group too.
Little Friend did some climbing,
and Sunnyboy found some mud.
Today we're going on a river cruise with the home education group.
Last autumn we collected a large bin bag of dry leaves from the garden and filled up the bath with leaves for Sunnyboy to play in. Of course, he also played in the leaves in the garden but I thought indoor leaf play would be fun too. He really enjoyed it and was busy in the bath arranging leaves for a long time, eventually pouring water on them and playing with soggy leaves. Our bathroom smelt of autumn for days.
Last week the Co-op children had a Halloween party planning meeting. Sunnyboy's contributions to the meeting included suggesting we have cake and peas as party food. He was delighted when a couple of days later this invitation came through our letterbox. He pegged it up with his art display, so he could 'read' it and look forward to the party.
For the party Sunnyboy dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. He was very impressed with the other costumes and the Halloween decorations.
He had a wonderful time dancing at the Spooky Disco.
After dinner and dancing we went out to do "tickle treat".
Then the party continued with more dancing, party games and apple bobbing.
Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out. By Gene Weingarten Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10
HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play.
It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L'Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant.
...There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed to watch Bell, or the ones who gave money, from that vast majority who hurried on past, unheeding. Whites, blacks and Asians, young and old, men and women, were represented in all three groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away.