Earth Blues

[Kid Berwyn]

9. To cut the chain of hate requires good people.

I'm with you and Camus today. The murder of innocent people is wrong. And when one person suffers, all who care suffer. Researchers have found (and confirmed what good parents do naturally) what ALL parents need to do to raise good kids:

Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow up kind, helpful and 'prosocial'

Date:October 9, 2023
Source: University of Cambridge

Summary: A new study indicates a strong connection between early parent-child relationships and the likelihood that children will grow up to display socially-desirable characteristics like kindness and empathy. Using data from 10,000 people in the UK, researchers found that children who have a warm and loving bond with their parents at age three are not only less prone to mental health difficulties, but display heightened ‘prosociality’ by the time they reach adolescence. This refers to socially-desirable behaviors such as kindness, empathy, helpfulness, generosity and volunteering. Conversely, children whose early relationships with their parents were difficult or abusive were less likely to develop prosocial habits. The researchers argue that this strengthens the case for developing targeted policies to support young families within which it may be difficult to establish close early parent-child relationships.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231009191705.htm

One of the greatest people to ever live on how to do so:

Cellist Pablo Casals greets first lady Jacqueline Kennedy after a concert given in the White House in November 1961 in honor of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín of Puerto Rico, to the left of President Kennedy in the photo.



Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again.

And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France.

When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them:

Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you.

And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven.

You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.

And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.

— Pablo Casals