Post-humuous Parenting

Pokhara, Nepal, a photo by Dario Valderrama on Flickr.

Playing with children helps us grow up to be responsible adults. 

irresponsible [ˌɪrɪˈspɒnsəb^əl]

adj

1. not showing or done with due care for the consequences of one's actions or attitudes; reckless

2. not capable of bearing responsibility

3. Archaic not answerable to a higher authority for one's actions

irresponsibility , irresponsibleness n

irresponsibly  adv

There is such a huge need for a new stream to child advocacy -

our children,

who have been given no choice;

fatalities resulting from drone strikes, violence, hunger, misinformation & missed education, poverty, climate issues - all relate to the responsibilities we as adults take or trash.  Some days it breaks my heart the absurdity of the current rational that somehow it's OK to recognize any atrocity towards a child if we can blame someone, anyone else, and move on with the current agendas.

What is the worth of a child today?

An innocent child killed today will be exploited in war as a golden opportunity to do more harm.

This an expense we must become unwilling to pay.

How is that a good investment for peace?  The self-serving agenda must change.

These are our children.

All over the world.

They have no choice but to follow us.  But this kind of lead is creating less love and more rue.

Why do we cling to the power and control of "parenting czar" attached to resentments we hold toward our parents, ie. governments, who we feel/think (falsely), still have such power and control over us?
How do we let it go?

It appears, at least as some factions go, the most popular requisite of caring for, is being

physically larger,

earning money, and

the ability to recite bedtime nightmares filled with tactile teddy-bear fears to hug.

It'll back fire, as it always does, unless we change this chain of command.

I do not doubt, that

Our children

are watching some of us snivel to their grandparents.  They see it.

I've been guilty of it, and grateful to be loved enough and open-minded enough to see it in me. 

It's a confusing hierarchy for secure faith.

Let's give them something better.

I would like for more of us to keep them safe, and loved instead of molested and murdered.

I know you do too.

That's ideal right?

Let's allow our children to raise us.  Recognize them as leaders.
Play their games.
They have endless knowledge and wisdom. Kids can teach us to 
achieve from within amazing love, peace and beauty.

It may change the way we treat them, ourselves, and others.

Then maybe we would enjoy responsibility as a fun rewarding privilege.