Love, Music and Peace

We are finding out our voices through living around the world. It is always the most important thing to listen to your heart: what do you really want? Follow your mind and discover the world with LOVE and CONSIDERATION.

3/12/2005

Home Education and Childhood Education

I had chances to see 2 great dramas lately. They were entilted of "Pillowman" and "The Story of An Action Man". I enjoyed both dramas so much and had some strong reflection after watching them.

The "Pillowman" was a drama with many spoky stories which I was quite scared of. However, I realised how important the home education/childhood education are. The attitude toward life, people and so forth that parents/teachers model for children would reframe by children to their own life. There are too many things to be learnt before going to school as a child, however, what kind of home education would he/she gain at home? The answer is varied. The world of a child is just like a white paper, you would never know which colour he/she would paint on it. Therefore, we, as adults, future parents, we need to model young children to show them what is appropriate to do and build them a environment with LOVE and CARING. Children from a miserable childhood would show his/her negative attitude toward people and life, even worse, he/she may hurt himself/herself or someone else. The roles of parents and teachers are really important.

"The Story of An Action Man" was a drama played by British Sign Language. I did not know that the actors and actress are handicapped or deaf while I was watching it. After the drama, we had a chance to communicate with the director, who is deaf but tried to create and direct dramas for the minority groups. I really enjoyed watching the drama and learning the sign language throuhg it. In the story, the issue of a broken family was addressed. There is always a sound in minds that shall we tell children the dark side of reality. I think we should, it only depends on which perspective and in what way we are telling children the reality. Children could imagine the situation even they may not relate to some of the plots, however, they would be able to understand that there is not just sunny/happy side in life. Telling children the reality is not frigtening them but helping them deal with their emopitions as well as understand the situation. However, it is far more important then just showing them the reality but bringing LOVE and HOPE to them. Happy ending is still very important to children--that's because we want children to look at the bright side and think positively.

I remembered myself learnt sign language for a few months before. I would like to learn it again after watching this drama. The other reason I liked this drama so much is that through the sign language, deaf people would be able to understand it and enjoy it. Other than us, both deaf and blind people were enjoying the drama with us that day. It felt just great not to be left out. I wish that I could learn some sign langauge and be able to communicate with deaf people.

Life will still be so bright and beautiful even there may be lots of rainy, windy and snowy days.

The New Born Baby Boy of Joanna.


ShangJie Posted by Hello

照片中這個可愛的小男寶寶是我最好的大學同學Joanna的新生寶寶.
他才剛滿月喔!!我又再一次錯過Joanna的人生新階段. 我錯過她2002年甜蜜的婚禮,又再次錯過她初次當媽媽的喜悅與感動. 我想我到現在都還不大相信那個迷糊Joanna已經當媽媽了吧!
記得Joanna曾經問過為什麼她總是我們這群好友中的先鋒--工作,結婚,生子.我想,這都是個人的選擇和命運的巧妙吧!
像Joanna的簡單平凡而且快樂的生活也是許多人的夢想,我也不例外.只是會走到今天這階段並不是我10年前的計畫.我也很享受我的單身生活,自由自在,無拘無束.不過,沒有對象又愛小孩的我有時會擔心變成高齡產婦怎麼辦?!(還真是想太多)所以,我積極鼓吹身邊好友快快結婚生個寶寶讓我過過癮...當小朋友拗起來的時候,還可以拍拍屁股走人,把小孩還給爸爸媽媽... :P

想到下回聚會時,會多了一名小成員,心裡就覺得好興奮說...有個小小孩讓一群阿姨"玩" :O

Dear Joanna,我只想告訴妳,好好珍惜妳所擁有簡單的快樂.幫我抱抱上頡,告訴他阿姨很喜歡他喔!