As a parent I’ve rapidly learnt that we are not here to teach our children but learn from them. This is none more apparent when discovering that children laugh on average 146 times a day, whilst adults laugh just four times. Does this point to the serious business of growing up or us simply taking life too seriously? Draw your own conclusions but whilst doing so let’s all try to bring up the average for our team by doubling our laughter count, starting today.
Posts Tagged ‘lessons’
Cheer up!
Monday, October 27th, 2008Our Greatest Teachers
Friday, October 24th, 2008The financial crisis is one of the most profound teachers of our time. Whether in America, Iceland, the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia or beyond it is showing us that everything in this world is interconnected and we cannot survive without considering each other and pulling together. Boundaries, flags and the “me culture” ultimately count for nothing. The more important lesson is that greed created the problems, fear magnified it but neither play a part in the solution. Although we are just students, as guardians of our planet, we should be inspired to know that we finally ready to learn from these lessons.
