Robert Hart Antiguru Newsletter

date: 15th February 2004

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How our Society creates distrust in Children, or
Are you perverting the Innocence of your Children?

Today in a local cafe I witnessed a man trying to trick a young child into putting its nose between his fingers. He said to the child," This will be a good massage it will be good for you." Of course when the child puts his nose there the fingers close and squeeze the child's nose. This hurts. This is one more lesson in learning to distrust and develop a cynical attitude to the world, loosing that innocence we are born with. The child was not to be taken in so easily, so the man tried over and over. He seemed to enjoy the challenge and was apparently unaware of what was really going on. Why does someone try so hard to do this?

A similar story from my childhood. One afternoon when I was walking home from school I passed some men working on the telephone line. A man said "Do you want to know your weight?" I said "yes." believing what the man said would be true. He said "Just hold on to these metal bars." When I did he turned a handle on a box where the wires came from. I received an electric shock. I could not let go of the probes till he stopped. The men just laughed. I was shocked to say the least.! These days such behaviour would probably land them in jail. But in those days ...I said nothing and walked home, feeling confused and stupid.

Are you perverting your children's' innocence? Maybe not as blatantly as the above examples, but maybe more subtly, maybe telling them lies, or maybe promising them ice cream if they behave the way you want.

Have a good day
Robert

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