Dirk Boehmer's Blog – December 2008 Archive (3)

Aren't many of us parents covertly asking ourselves sometimes:

"What is this just for an obviously adverse, artificial and injust world we are begetting our kids into??"



But the question is not what life or other people can do for us, but what we can do for them, especially for our kids.....??!!



Well, in a nutshell, let us treat them as what they really are and as to what they earn: as devine unspoiled essences, as souls on earth, as upgrowing virtuous angels who… Continue

Growing global connectivity along with ever-rising (informational as well as emotional) complexity and very disputable (spritutal and ethical) “sustainability” promptly call for an increased educational consciousness of FAIRness world wide:



F = Focus on compassion and wisdom

A = Awareness and Attentiveness

I = Insight, Intuition and (sagacious) Intelligence

R = Respect and… Continue

"While the baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950s, today's twenty-something generation [X] grew up in a time of drugs, divorce and economic strain. . .They feel influenced and changed by the social problems they see as their inheritance: racial strife, homelessness, fractured families and federal deficits...." (Time Magazin 1990; nowadays even more applicable).



Thus, to me it is the most wise, provident and precious mission to educate our kids (the neXt generation "Z", Z… Continue