Beauty in children: Their innocence

Simple joys

"Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do." ~Marianne Williamson

Simple joys

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

A child does not say

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

I took these shots using Canon Rebel XSi in various locations around the Philippines. All are in their original form except some minor adjustments to colors and levels. Children always amuses me with their innocence and honesty. So this is a tribute to them.

These are our future.

The dampa kids of Inayawan

We visited this relocation site in Inayawan this afternoon for a group activity. Curious children suddenly came and played "dampa" (a game of rubber bands using your hand to "blow" them so you could win them) right in the doorstep of our meeting area. I took these shots while they were playing using my Sony Ericsson W810i..

Raising Children

We were discussing about children and how to raise them when the news came in about an alcoholic Russian mother who left her kid among dogs and the discussants had the time of their lives. I mean, they were having fun, sort of. They were sympathetic but they had fun. 

Raising children for sure is never heaven. But having them as a choice means responsibility, a big one! That's why reproductive health is necessary this time. I know, the Catholic Church would frown. But what the hell.

So many children have already suffered because they were unwanted but religion forced them (parents) to. And there they are, unwanted, uncared for. And they were supposed to be gifts from God. 

Still didn't get it? Look around.

If you want to know what I mean read this-

Girl, 3, raised by dogs in her home after her alcoholic mother neglected her

A three-year-old girl has been found being cared for by dogs while her alcoholic mother neglected her.

Social workers discovered the girl in her mother's house in Russia, naked and walking on all fours, gnawing bones with the dogs who she clung to for warmth.

The child, called Madina, only knows two words - yes and no - and growls like a dog when people come too close, Russian media reported.

Madina, from Ufa in central Russia, was shunned by other local children in her neighbourhood.

Her mother, known only as Anna, 23, had ignored her for most of her life, police said.

Anna ate at the table while allowing her daughter to eat on the floor with the dogs.

The girl's mother often disappeared and was also frequently too drunk to look after for her child.

'The child is angelic but she has been deprived of love and care, except from the dogs,' said a social worker.

'When her mother was angry she used to run away, but no child played with her in the playground,' said one newspaper report.  

'She hardly knew a single word, and fought with everyone.

'So dogs became her best friends. She played with them, and slept with them when it was cold in winter.'

The girl's father disappeared soon after her birth, which led to Madina's mother drinking, said neighbours.

She often invited local alcoholics to her house, completely ignoring her little child, they said.

When police arrived to take the child into care, Anna reportedly claimed: 'I do look after my daughter.'

Medics say the girl is mentally and physically healthy despite her ordeal. 

Children of the Rice

  

 

 

 

 

This bunch of gregarious nephews are the soul of our clan. Pictures taken during the All Souls Day in Batuan, Bohol using Sony Ericsson W810i in natural light.

Hermosa Zamboanga!

Camera: Sony Ericsson W810i, natural light

Location: Zamboanga City

Dear God

Children's Letters to God

Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have now? Jane Dear God, Who draws the lines around the countries? Nan Dear God, Went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay? Neil Dear God, Thank you for my baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. Joyce Dear God, It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about you that people are not supposed to say, but I hope you will not hurt him in any way. Your Friend (but I am not going to tell you who I am) Dear God, Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up. Bruce Dear God, If we come back as something, please don't let me be Jennifer Horton, because I hate her. Denise Dear God, I want to be just like my daddy when I get big, but not with so much hair all over. Sam Dear God, I think the stapler is one of your greatest inventions. Ruth Dear God, I think about you sometimes, even when I'm not praying. Elliott Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all the people in the world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it. Nan Dear God, Of all the people who worked for you, I like Noah and David the best. Rob Dear God, My brothers told me about being born, but it doesn't sound right. They are just kidding, aren't they? Marsha Dear God, If you watch me in church Sunday, I'll show you my new shoes. Mickey Dear God, We read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday School, we learned that you did it. So I bet he stole your idea. Donna Dear God, I do not think anybody could be a better God. Well, I just want you to know that I am not just saying this because you are God already. Charles Dear God, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool! Eugene Dear God, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. Larry

from patfish.blogspot.com