What Childhood and Teaching Means to Me

This is a quote by C.S. Lewis, who was a great theologian and author of the great children’s book series “Chronicles of Narnia”.  If there is one idea or concept about educating young children that is truly insightful it is always to remember that just because you are considered an adult never forget that being a young child is less important.  Children are just little people who have feelings and thoughts about life as well.  I believe if we treat children with the same “importance” as adults we will get the best and most positive experiences with our children.  The message from this quote has helped me realize that your childhood as the basis of who we are as adults is so important.  I will never stop singing in public places randomly because it is who I am as a person, I will keep things close to me because it is who I am as a person, and I will always love homemade popcorn off the stove because it is who I am as a person.  All of these things I just happened to realize as a child.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” 
― C.S. Lewis

             I would like to say thank to all my colleagues who have help me gain insights in the development of young children.  In order to thank you I will leave you with one personal piece of advice from the musical the Broadway musical Peter Pan it is my one of my favorite songs from the musical called “I Won't Grow Up”