Do you believe in Magic?

What makes children so happy? If you ask a psychologist they will tell you that when a child's basic needs are met they are content and therefore are able to be happy. I think children are naive, most often when people hear that word naive they take it as an insult and who knows I suppose when your talking to another adult and you tell them that they are naive it can be an insult but I don't mean it that way...

I think children are happy because their are naive... the very definition in Merriam-Webster says "naive - is marked by unaffected simplicity, lacking understanding and worldly experience..."

Children aren't tainted by the world, they look at everything with fresh new eyes. We are caregivers, whether your mom, dad, grandma, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, whoever... its our job to guide them. If we want to make an event wonderful or miserable that's how the event is going to turn out. We have the ability to control the outcome so we have to stay positive. Okay before I go on and on about being positive I am going to stop myself there and get back to my main point... which was... Magic!

The best part about being a kid is experience the excitement of the unknown, we forget that as adults because its been so long since we were able to experience that excitement that we are to far removed. But its important when you become the parent in the circumstance to let your child experience it. Let them believe in Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, let them believe in fairy tales of far off lands, and in those intangible things that they can not touch.  When asked how to develop intelligence in young people Albert Einstein said "Read Fairy Tales."!

"What IS this thing called imagination? Imagination is the power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality. It is a creative ability or mental capacity for experiencing, constructing and manipulating mental images. "

Being a kid is the most important time in a child's life, it forms who they are going to be as adults, their character, their beliefs, their goals and their perspective on life. Having a creative sense of self is important so let them believe in Never Never Land for a little while, let them believe Santa comes through a key hole of chimney to deliver them presents. There is going to come a day when they no longer believe in such things let them have it while they can....Who knows allowing your child to have more of an active imagination they might use that to become a great composer, create a new invention, solve world hunger :)

Lesson Learned - "Let my child be a child... they have their whole life ahead of them to learn life's disappointments they don't need to be little adults now!"

Through a Child's Eyes - Visitor's Poem

by Stacey Deland
(Massachusetts, USA)

Light of day.
Has crawled out to play.
When you're awake.
They come out of the bay.

They skip and jump.
Come out to be seen.
Get you on your feet.
Make your wildest dreams.

It has the courage
To have fun all day
Instead of being boring
And doing work all the way.

It takes over children
Let them dream away
No one's alone
They all stand around to play

No matter who
I can honestly say
That all this happiness
Has hopefully come to stay

Just when you've forgotten
As you go to bed
When you wake up the next morning
It happens all over again