Learning through the children's world

Who says that we cannot learn from children? No one set the rule that adults are created to teach children and children are only to learn from what the adults say. There are so many things that we, as adults can learn from the children. They often remind us of our past, our beautiful childhood memory and they form as reminders of the lesson that we inherited from our ancestors.

One of the good example would be the story of "Edwina the Emu" by Sheena Knowles. It is a story of a female emu, going out of her nest to work and support her ten new emus that are ready to crack out from their eggs. Edwina goes to town, while her husband takes care of the eggs. She becomes a ballerina but rejected because she's a dancing emu. She's rejected for the second time because she's an emu that can sweep chimneys and lastly, she runs away to her nest when a guy said that he could eat ten eggs for breakfast. This story is written with wonderful ryhming lines that even adults like us would enjoy reading it anytime.

What should be taken note is that lesson inflicted in this story is a reminder of the lesson that we have learned from the past. Being a female, Edwina would be the best person to raise up her babies. But she forgets her duty and goes out to find a job. I did not mean to be gender bias but I feel that it is the duty of a woman to raise and take care of the family while a man goes out and provides what is necessary. This is what the lesson of the story is all about. It is a wonderfully illustrated and funny alarm of reminder.

There is another children's story that would be a good lesson for all of us, regardless of the age to learn. It is the story of "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. This story is one of the best tool that can be used to expand our imagination as it is our own world, we are the king of our own imagination. Whatever goes through our mind, is because we think of it, there is no other reason. The mouse, the protagonist in this story, creates an imaginary wild animal that would scare off other animals that want to eat the mouse. eventually, he bumps into a gruffalo, an animal that he thought does not exist and he uses his imagination to overcome the problem with the same method.

What we can learn here is that, we are responsible for what we are saying to people and we must have the guts to face the conequences. As for the mouse, he is aware of what he had said and he is ready to face the consequences. At the end, he manages to send the gruffalo running for his life. The exciting part is how the mouse imagines a gruffalo to be and describes it to his enemies. We should have the ability to imagine and we know that the children are really good at it. So, this would be give a helpful hand for them to expand their imaginative skills and what do you know, you're kids might be the future creative heads of the country.

So, here is a suggestion, preferably a request for parents or adults to get the book and read it out for yourself and kids around. It is time for us to go back to our roots and let our kids learn good lesson from us. It also time for us to remind ourselves of our own duty. Equality is one part but let us see what is our duty and what we are good at as our priority. This is how we learn through the children's world.