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Who's Disciplining Who?

My thoughts were prompted by the following quote:
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly." [P. J. O'Rourke]
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Comment:
Size & experience make adults better suited to the role of Guardian; adults are meant to protect children from harm & provide them with useful boundaries so that they may survive the inherent limitations of the material world that they find themselves in.

Innocence & light-spiritedness make children the better Educators; children can enlighten & instruct adults to the rich underlying power of the imagination from whence all creativity arises, so that as adults they may find viable solutions & insights to the problems that plague the world they find themselves in.

Whenever either adult, or child, insist on, or allow for, the roles to be reversed, we all suffer the very real manifesting consequences that disrupt the natural flow of either personal or collective relationship: conflict, rigidity, dogma & broken spirit.

Demitra M.N.