I know I could be way wrong, but today, the films we watched in class all had a common theme: kids have the world figured out better than we think.
In the first short we watched, I'm sure I wasn't alone in assuming the young girl buying a candy bar was stealing money from her father to get what she wanted: chocolate for dinner, rather than eggs. It wasn't until they arrived at their house that it began to dawn on me that she might have bought the chocolate for him. So often the worst is expected out of children, and their ignorance gets a lot more attention than their instinctive wisdom. We as humans, I believe, are an innocent, well-meaning people, and sometimes our intentions get complicated and we end up hurting ourselves or others. This is illustrated in no better way than through the actions of a child.
The little girl in the second short, Colorforms, was intent on making a mess everywhere she went. Her grandfather recognized this in her and saw her motives, and wisely showed her that there is a time and a place to make a mess and that this is not a pleasure that has been lost on the adults.
Children, although they are young, get the privilege of seeing the world through relatively unbiased eyes, although there are always inclinations after the moment of birth. Still, their inexperience is often their best trait. With no personal stake in any worldly matters, children like to solve problems with obvious solutions based on the RELATIVELY few stimuli they've encountered.
These films reminded me that more often than we think, their simple answers to life's purposes trump our complicated remedies.
That sounds just about right! I think the younger the kids, the less they have to worry about so they tend to think more clearly about things versus all the stress you get when you're older, like college age for instance.
ReplyDeleteI was so hoping the little girl in colorforms was going to paint the house!