Grandma time again

Maria Arpa

2 September 2020

This week

Grandma time again

Plus…

Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness

and

The Wednesday Whisper

Welcome to planet Earth

Monday hailed the arrival of Lola. 2 weeks overdue and 10lbs in weight.

A new life. What is her destiny? How will she navigate life in this world?

My 3 year old granddaughter announced last week that she is 12. I wonder how she came to that conclusion.

What a joy.

Marshall Rosenberg said, if you want to be happy, do not get married, do not have children, go directly to grand children. Much more fun and less work.

Happy days.

Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness

I’m thinking about what’s in store for all our children and what we can do about it.

The Wednesday Whisper

What’s your prediction for 20 years from now?

Does this blog have any resonance for you?

Would you be willing to share this blog and repost it?

2 Comments

Minna Bruce
Posted 4 years ago Reply

This is a wildly bizarre thought.. What will my children be like AND what will they be doing in 20 yrs time? Just the fact that they may well be parents themselves sends my mind spinning.
The part of your blog that made my ears prick was the question that you posed about “A new life… What is her destiny.. How will she navigate life in this world?”
It’s actually one that I think about quite frequently.. as regards what have all those little young babies so full of hope.. been through in their lives that have turned them into the adults that they are today?
I find myself asking, how can those innocent, enthusiastic, enquiring, eager, open little beings become so complex and often seemingly damaged by life?
Should it be our priority to in some way ‘teach’ them Resilience.. over and above the teaching of Maths, Science and Geography etc?
Anyway.. how would that happen?
- Maria Arpa
  Posted 4 years ago Reply
  
  Music to my ears. In my world we would not have ‘school’. We would have places of learning and discovery for children to understand their world including a priority on communicating, relationships and nonviolence as a way of being in the world. We would take trauma informed therapy more seriously at an earlier age and being to remove the concepts of domination culture as the only model for mainstream society. We would introduce them to topics through projects so, for example. they would learn how to make something from wood and then understand the maths, science, history etc behind it so that they can connect to the resources needed. So much to say on this topic. If I ever won the lottery I would create this school as an all encompassing way of demonstrating how to integrate children into their world holistically and in tune with nature so they can make better quality decisions about their well being into adulthood.