East Carolinian

Greetings,

It is with great joy that I've run across your website. As a fellow South Carolinian (College of Charleston, 2004), I know all-too-well how daunting a task we'll have reviving our communities.

What follows is an essay regarding the "proper way to instill wisdom within our children." If you work with children, something within the essay may "click", and perhaps be inspiring.

Thank you so much for "being you":))

HOW TO INSTILL WISDOM INTO A CHILD.

Greetings,

Despite the exclamations we sometimes hear, claiming that "life is created at conception", these claims are not true. Early Human life (the embryo) is a continuance of life. If this were 't so, you could put to "dead" sperm and egg cells together, and life would emanate from them. If an embryo, then child, is fed correctly (mentally/spiritually) over a long enough period of time, a more perfect version of the energy transmitted into the child, from the parents, is possible.

An infant's mind is an empty vaccuum.

It's full of genetic information, but the mind, and sense of self, are still a clean slate. As far as education is concerned, an infant doesn't have the potential to become an Engineer, a Nurse, a Teacher, a Pilot, or a Social Worker. It's already all of those things. Which inclinations within the brain, which we choose to feed, determines what personality evolves from our children.

Entertainment KILLS mental evolution. Entertainment, outside of athletics, is for adults. This "crack music" that's so popular today is what stamps out the flames of creativity within youth. Of course, this doesn't apply to ALL youth; just the vulnerable ones.

Different parts of the brain compete, electromagnetically, until about age eighteen. There's a part of the brain that nurtures genious, and there's a part of the brain that wants to "jam", and they stay in stiff competition, one against the other. One cannot do both, effectively.

Some of the worst child abusers are television sets and radios. Please, keep things in context. A little bit of jamming wont hurt our children. Cursing at them, and becoming their friends, rather than authority figures, will. Being absent from their lives, will. Allowing the man on the corner, whose not a man himself, to teach young boys how to be a man, is suicide.

I'll get to the point about crafting a wisdom into a child in just a second, but a brief comment about two-parent households is due. Now, sisters, your frustration, and lack of energy needed to instill everything of value into a young mind is understandable when "the baby's dady" thinks he's the invisible man.

However, and understandably, you express love for your children by telling them that "I'll love you no matter what." That's a beautiful statement, but it's harmful. If the right type of man helps you raise your children, his job is to say, "I'll love you no matter what, but you're not going to become a f...-up on my watch." That's what child rearing is about.

More than anything else, wise people are skeptical people. During the early years of a child's life, they ask many questions. Most people, with little thought, give the child answers to the questions they have. This is a HUGE mistake. Never, ever, ever, give a child a direct answer to any question. Teach them to think for themselves.

When a child asks, for example "Where does the water running into the tub come from?", say to them, "I'm not sure. Let's think about this for a second. What happens when you suck on a straw?" The child will say, "water comes out of the straw." The proper response would be to say, "but wait, does the water come up out of the straw by itself?" The child will say "no."

Then (and as often as possible) ask the child another question; "does something need to be done to make the water come out of the straw?" The childs eyes will then light-up, because, by nature, children love instances where they percieve themselves to be the teacher, rather than student. The child will EAGERLY attest to the fact that you have to suck on the straw in order to make the water come out of it. Then, as the teacher, you should ask the child, "since water comes into the tub, like water coming out of a straw, do you think something must suck the water up into the tub?"

See? Most people just indoctrinate their children with information, much of which is useless.

Learning is an ACTIVE PROCESS.

Anything you tell a child is soon forgotten, unless you tell it to them, over, and over, and over again. However, when you teach your child how to THINK, you set the forces of GREATNESS, SELF-CONFIDENCE, BOLDNESS, DISCIPLINE, AND SUCCESS INTO MOTION.

Thanks kindly for reading this passage, and let's get the "wheels spinning" within our children.

" THE SHADOW. "

We're from North Carolina.

We stop listening when people call us "fellow South Carolinian(s)."

I would hope people would avoid such a calibur considering it appears to me that you are the biggot George by suggesting North Carolinians are racist. Perhaps you should stick to South Carolina and try to learn a little more about us before you start tossing mud.