CNN made a mistake the day after the Oklahoma City explosion. They asked real experts on children, those who deal with them rather than theorists about the children. The unanimous opinion was that children are the least effected by such events and it is adults -- their parents -- that are affected the most by them.
Let me expand upon that. There were professional opinions from the experts who were not grabbing headlines that children do not react to such events as though they understood them as adults. That is quite reasonable given the lack of perspective of children.
But that was the first day after the explosion. By the second day the headline grabbers demanded attention lead by Hillary forcing the co-president make an issue of children.
Have you ever had children? Have you ever noticed when you are upset over something they could never understand, like taxes or something on the job, they get upset? I can not imagine a parent saying no but if you honestly say that, please skip the rest and go on to the next.
If you can understand what I am saying then what in the hell is the President of the United States, with the "best" advisors in the country doing spending half his press time and most of his actions trying to scare the crap out of children?
Obviously his advisors is his non-competent wife who believes this kind of nonsense but as an attorney has no professional knowledge of the events at hand. The professionals and ANY parent will tell you that if parents remain calm, children will remain calm.
But in this case parents, teachers, even Billie Jeff himself are encouraging children to create feelings and memories around these events. Act out what? Express what? Exactly what the adults who take it worse than children feel. The adults are bent upon making children express what adults think adults should feel.
This is one of the worst forms of child abuse. Forcing children by training to express feelings they do not have and would not normally have only because adults want to see children express them.
And if children do not express these feelings? Obviously they are "repressing" those feelings and must be "encouraged" (read forced) to express them.
Excuse me but for at least one hundred years now we have been told that childhood is special and should be preserved with myth and fantasy and they should enjoy it as long as possible. Childhood is special and different from adulthood, they can live with fantasy and belief in good winning over evil and every other adult fantasy. But suddenly when faced with an adult reality, children can no longer live with a Santa Claus but must deal with an adult reality.
I think I see an inconsistency here. Does someone see something consistent in this? What happened to change children between the original CNN opinion of experts and Clinton declaring the "truth" about children? Why are there suddenly so many theoretician, non-parents crawling out of the woodwork to declare children must act out the fears of adults? Why are schools around the country abandoning the teaching of reading to have them, require them, to draw pictures, write compositions, express feelings they do not have?
This is in fact pandering to the feelings of adults and making children pay for that pandering. It really is about time it stopped. But we are months away from it stopping and before it does EVERY prejudice that is imparted with it will be implanted as a religious belief as it was with school children when JFK was killed.
This event is going to be interesting. Adults are going to have to deal with it. They are not going to be able to off load it on children and claim it is for the good of the children.