Resignation oder Rebellion — Blog — Ernst Zwiker

Resignation oder Rebellion

Gifts for Children - ATTENTION - 2

....‘Cool sein’ ist das grösse Gebot innerhalb unserer Jugend. Diese Werte werden aufgebaut in der Kindheit. Wenn du Achtung und Respekt, Anerkennung und Aufmerksamkeit willst, dann musst du Wege finden, cool zu sein, sonst bist du ein Verlierer...‘…

‘Be cool’ is the greatest imperative among our youth. These values are built up in childhood. If you want esteem and respect, recognition and attention, then you have to find ways to be cool or you will be a loser.

How Do Our Children Learn?

Marketing?

The marketing experts are too shrewd to be exposed. They strive to connect their products to parents' needs. You have to have virtual reality glasses because everyone else has them too. If possible in a better version. You need to get it soon to be 'in' and 'cool'. Therefore, new products are constantly available in these areas. Business is booming because their appeal is overwhelming.

Therefore, digital learning is often inevitable in schools too. Drawing and modeling is losing its fascination in the face of such modern digital toys.

New products are needed so that these “new” children's needs can also be satisfied.

How important is it to know what a really important gift for children is! Children can only hope that their adult companions will be good guides, not seducers. For if they are seducers, then the children also become seducers. Seducers protect seducers.

....Neue Produkte müssen her, damit diese ‚neuen‘ Kinderbedürfnisse auch befriedigt werden können. Auch ganz in der Natur kann diese in Vergessenheit geraten. Moderne Spielzeuge können das machen! Wie wichtig ist es doch zu wissen, was ein wirklich …

New products are needed so that these “new” children's needs can also be satisfied. Even in nature, this can be forgotten. Modern toys can do that! How important is it to know what a really important gift for children is! Children can only hope that their adult companions will be good guides, not seducers. For if they are seducers, then the children also become seducers. Seducers protect seducers.

Circumstances

People adapt to the circumstances. Somehow they manage everywhere. Even in the North Pole. Children are raised everywhere, even in extreme living spaces.

Our brain is sensational. It is through learning that we develop our neural brain connections. These circuits are unique and culturally different. This growing into one's own culture becomes everyone's potential. The structure of the brain is strongly influenced by learning.

Children's brains are preprogrammed even before they are born. Therefore every child is different. Before birth, it was the mother's tones that influenced the brain. These neural behavior patterns are familial, cultural and very important. These should be valued, the individual should be accepted. Making sounds with the mouth, building a tower with building blocks, repeating it and learning the language with it, and then all of school learning, that should be trained through practice. This is how potential development works.

The child experiences himself as a subject in this daily learning. The more it experiences acceptance, the more it feels connected to the environment. The self-learning process is important to develop. Parents would like to direct this process themselves. Sure, it has to be prepared for this society. But where are the limits.

Children need companions, role models, not constant evaluators

The adults who are responsible for the upbringing want to steer the children in their desirable direction. They have their own goals. From playful fun, it becomes the object of the ideas, instructions, evaluations, support and educational measures of the parents. This seems normal, but it can have dramatic effects on the child. It notices that it no longer meets the expectations and expectations of the parents.

We parents and teachers are often not aware that we often treat children as objects instead of subjects, that is, we educate them for our own benefit and ideas, perhaps even proud of their performance, with which we plant them from their own system into ours . The child should learn what we consider important and right. After all, it is a child and cannot know what is important and right for it. Logical!

....Uns Eltern und Lehrer ist oft nicht bewusst, dass wir die Kinder oft als Objekte statt Subjekte behandeln, es also zu unserem eigenen Nutzen und Vorstellungen erziehen, dabei vielleicht sogar stolz auf deren Leistung sind, womit wir sie aus ihre…

We parents and teachers are often not aware that we often treat children as objects instead of subjects, that is, we educate them for our own benefit and ideas, perhaps even proud of their performance, with which we plant them from their own system into ours .

The child should learn what we consider important and right. Be better than others, defeat, win, even be better than me. After all, it is a child and cannot know what is important and right for it. Logical!

Basic Needs of Children

Reliable Connection and Autonomous Development

These two basic needs of children are often neglected, which, for example, can lead to a phase of defiance. The child has to come to terms with it, find its own solution and overlay unpleasant feelings with pleasant ones or bridge any pain.

Through playful experimentation, children can override such dilemmas. The better they learn to cope with it, the more successful they seem to be. They will then try the same as their role models, namely to use other people for their purposes and ideas.

Power and Influence are Developed in This Way

Children who fail to meet these challenges often tend to make themselves the objects of their negative reviews in order to get out of this pain. These children tend to like each other less and less and eventually get sick because of it.

Both those children who learn to make others their objects and goals, and those who make themselves the object of their negative evaluations and thus regard themselves as incapable, both have to perform a technically difficult brain function for this learning process. You have to learn to override the neural networks that cause your pain with other thoughts.

What Makes Children Strong?

  • The joy of discovering yourself

  • Self-learning processes,

  • make autonomous decisions,

  • experience a reliable connection,

these experiences make children strong. With such experiences they try to overcome the pain. And most of them manage it. But then they no longer feel the same joy and passion as before.

Resignation or Rebellion

Their natural need for autonomy becomes a constant struggle against paternalism, and their longing for connection changes into rejection and indifference towards the environment. You seem strained and driven. When they play, they want to, yes, they have to be better than the others and want to win. Children with a strong ego tend to actively protest, even rebel. If you learn this early on, it can accompany you throughout your life.

Others, on the other hand, withdraw, tend to be anxious and have little self-confidence. You resign. The carefree and open-mindedness of the children is gone. The more this affects their development, the more it will affect them for life.

We hold it because it is experienced everywhere as normal. We experienced it that way ourselves. It complies with the norm. But that doesn't mean it's good or optimal.

....Verführbar wird ein Mensch immer dann, wenn er bedürftig ist, ein ungestilltes Bedürfnis in sich trägt. Das wissen die Verführer ganz genau. Sie bieten den zu Verführenden immer etwas an, auch wenn es nur ersatzweise Befriedigung bietet...A pers…

A person can always be seduced when he is needy, when he has an unsatisfied need. The seducers know that very well. They always offer something to be seduced, even if it only offers alternative satisfaction.

Attention Seduction!

Connectedness and security are very important to us all. We somehow seek to satisfy these basic needs until we get there. But the way we try to do this often runs through seduction. We want to get this satisfaction mostly through achievement and recognition in order to be accepted into the community. Making self-worth dependent on performance is dangerous for our quality of life. (BLOG)

It starts as a toddler. It then continues in school, training and professional life. It is exhausting to strive for recognition all your life. Someone who has to do this is no longer a free person but a needy one, and such are optimal victims for seducers.

Fortunately, even if the brain has been deformed, it can be changed to the last. Therefore it is never too late to free someone from these entanglements, to DEVELOP. There are still games and gifts that help not to get entangled but to evolve.

....Zum Glück ist das Gehirn, auch wenn es deformiert worden ist, bis zuletzt veränderbar. Deshalb ist es nie zu spät, jemanden aus diesen Verwicklungen zu befreien, sich also zu ENT-WICKELN. Es gibt noch Spiele und Geschenke, die helfen, sich nicht…

Fortunately, even if the brain has been deformed, it can be changed to the last. Therefore it is never too late to free someone from these entanglements, to DEVELOP. There are still games and gifts that help not to get entangled but to evolve.

Not seducible!

There are few children who cannot be seduced by gifts. But how must these be developed so that they do not fall for seducers?

Such children pretty much know what they want.

They only do what they really care about. You do this fully motivated, with total dedication and of your own accord. Often a playful lightness can also be seen. With these qualities, they do not fit so well into daycare centers and schools. Adults often react awkwardly to such children because they are difficult to raise. Praise and blame hardly have any effect on them. Gifts have no effect either.

Therefore, many of them are sent to doctors and psychologists. They often receive medication there. Some quickly become artists or inventors, setting up their own 'company'. They like to get involved in an important cause and do 'their thing'. It is not uncommon for them to be extremely successful.

Many of the well-known entrepreneurs, poets, artists and inventors are such personalities. Others consider you gifted. Many then believe that genetic predispositions are responsible for this.

But there are many personal and social skills (EQ) gained through educational work that are responsible for their success. The joy of discovery and creativity is unbroken with them. Joy in creativity and imagination is what drives them, so to speak. Thanks to their imagination, they always manage to implement their ideas. The success that they inevitably receive builds their confidence. They don't want to prove to others, but to themselves what they're made of. Their intrinsic motivation was not destroyed as it was with the others. (BLOG)

....Ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten haben sie nicht gewonnen durch sogenannt pädagogisch wertvollem Spielzeug, sondern weil sie bei jeder sich bietenden Gelegenheit und den sich bietenden Möglichkeiten entsprechend ausprobiert haben, was sich aus etwas …

They did not gain their special skills through so-called educationally valuable toys, but rather because they tried out what can be made of something at every opportunity and the available possibilities. You can do something with water, stones, wood, grass, dishes, whatever comes into your fingers. Whether at home, in the great outdoors, in kindergarten, you will find exciting challenges everywhere.

The Most Important Gift

Sure, these children also received presents. But these gifts were no more attractive than the cordless drill from the tool cabinet. There are gifts that help protect the children from seduction.

The most important gift that all children need cannot be bought anywhere. You need a safe haven. Then they can unfold. The harbor does not have to be luxurious, it arises all by itself when a child feels that they are loved by their companions. You feel what love really is. You will notice the difference between “I love you” and “I love you the way you are”. Unconditional trust in the child opens up their potential. It's an important part of the port. (BLOG)

The safe haven is the most important gift we can give them. All children bring their irrepressible joy in carefree, self-designed games with them. Discovering and shaping is their natural behavior. You love adventure. They love to play, the more the better.

Adults often find play to be unimportant. We often think we can interrupt their games. We do not notice what we can destroy in the process.

Our efficiency thinking is dangerous for the children. We don't have to evaluate everything. Let's just be attentive and watch their behavior and creations. It doesn't matter so much how well the child does something.

....Erwachsene finden oft Spiel als unwichtig. Wir meinen oft, wir könnten ihre Spiele unterbrechen. Dabei merken wir nicht, was wir dabei zerstören können.Unser Effizienzdenken ist gefährlich für die Kinder. Wir müssen nicht alles bewerten. Seien w…

Adults often find play to be unimportant. We often think we can interrupt their games. We do not notice what we can destroy in the process.

Our efficiency thinking is dangerous for the children. We don't have to evaluate everything. Let's just be attentive and watch their behavior and creations. It doesn't matter so much how well the child does something.

Thoughts from the book by Gerald Hüther and André Stern “What do we give our children

How Anger can Change to Love

....Liebe und Zorn sind zwei Seelenzustände, die manchmal recht nahe beieinander liegen können. Oft werden wir zornig über Menschen, die wir lieben, nicht wahr? Was ist Zorn wirklich ? Woher kommt er und wie kann er gesteuert werden ? Damit und ande…

Love and anger are two emotions that can sometimes be found side by side. We often get angry with people we love, don’t we? What is anger really? Where does it come from, and how can it be governed? These and other questions shall be the subject of our thoughts today.

What is Anger?

Anger is an emotion that can disturb and destroy family life. It can lead to conflict in marriage and abuse of children. If anger is not overcome, much misery can be the result. For children, their own anger is a huge threat. By learning to deal with anger constructively, a child’s chances of making it through life well are much improved.

Just for the record at the outset: Anger is not always and in every case bad. Those who work for justice and the benefit and good of others can doubtless experience anger.

When we speak of anger, other related terms also come to mind: violence, frustration, aggression, rage, resentment, and aggravation.  When we speak of love, I think of things like love of self, love for others (altruism) and love for God.

Anger & Co.

Anger is an intense emotional response and is manifested in different degrees of intensity involving a strong, uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.[1] Anger can occur when a person feels their personal boundaries are being or are going to be violated. Some have a learned tendency to react to anger through retaliation as a way of coping. The opposite of anger is meekness or gentleness.

On the one hand, anger is displayed as rage in the heat of the moment, a violent outburst of temper that can lead to uncontrolled acts or words. At that moment, the person is controlled by his/her anger and has no control over his or her actions or words. On the other hand, anger can manifest itself as a prolonged, seemingly justifiable indignation (resentment). Public or mob anger and the wrath of God are known examples. So anger that is ignited by a perceived wrong or unjust behavior is goal oriented and works to manipulate the situation according to one’s own opinions and needs, while rage is more general and tends to fly suddenly and uncontrollably in any or all directions.

Rage, as opposed to normal anger, is preceded by a slight of some kind (deeply unjust treatment) and feeds the growing fury in the individual who is bent on vengeance or retaliation. Anger, however, is fed by some denial of some perceived right or need (an child that doesn’t get the candy in the store; parents who have been disrespected; citizens who are upset by political decisions). The goal in this case is not necessarily revenge, but rather a clear expression of displeasure and dissatisfaction.

.... Viele Erwachsene leben ihren Zorn beim Autofahren aus. Eine gute Gelegenheit, wo niemand ausser sich selber zu Schaden kommen kann, meistens !! Falls Sie dieser Versuchung öfters erliegen, könnten Sie es ja mal versuchen, sich in der Verwandlun…

Many adults show their anger when they are driving. It’s a good opportunity to let it out, where no one gets hurt but themselves, usually!! If you find yourself falling often into this temptation, you might want to try replacing your angry thoughts with loving thoughts.

Anger among Children and Adults

If we want to pass on a constructive way of dealing with anger to those around us, and especially to our children, it is clear that we must first have learned it ourselves. This is also important within the marriage, which is the cornerstone and basis for all education and relationship in the family.

“Do your homework first, and then you can go outside and play!” Sentences like these can produce anger in children, but when a child has learned to accept boundaries, it will not be difficult to obey this simple rule. If not, the anger could build up inside and surface later as passive aggression. It is important that the parents recognize such problems and get professional help if needed. Happiness and disaster can be a near miss on either side of the question, if the problem is not solved.

Character Training

The way we deal with our anger deeply influences our personal development and strongly molds our characters. When we have learned to handle our anger sensibly, our characters can mature and develop on every level. One important part of this is our ability to deal with authority. This is an issue that influences an adult’s quality of professional and personal life, as well as his/ her spiritual dimension (relationship to God), which is of eternal relevance.

Those who would communicate values to their children have no choice but to give the subject the highest priority; otherwise the risk is high that their values will not be adopted. The individual who learns to transform challenges into constructive opportunities for growth, choosing sensible goals and activities rather than wallowing in self-pity has done his character a great service.

Passive Aggression

A widespread reaction to anger and rage is the destructive passive aggressive behavior. This is a form of payback, whereby the individual (usually) subconsciously does the opposite of what the person in authority has required, for example, parents, teachers, bosses and police. The issues can be conventions, norms and laws.

We can recognize passive aggression when we see that a person’s behavior defies all reason. When you have done everything humanly possibly to change the behavior, but to no avail, passive aggression is probably at the root.

Teenagers especially hurt themselves with this behavior. Being “cool” often means behaving passively aggressive. Today’s teenagers are generally confronted with drugs, violence, crime and sexual contact at an early age, which can lead to serious consequences. The risk of permanent damage is high. These young people need someone to spend time with them: playing sports, riding bikes, climbing, hiking in the mountains, generally a lot of exercise and good mind expanding, frontal lobe strengthening conversations. 

....Es ist ein grosser Vorteil, wenn die Teenager-Phase schon vorgängig vorbereitet wurde. In dieser Zeit, wo die passive Aggressivität gegenüber den meisten Autoritäten als cool gilt, aber höchst risikoanfällig ist, zahlt sich ein bewusster Umgang …

It is very advantageous to prepare for a child’s teenager phase ahead of time. To get through this extremely risky time of life, it’s a good idea to learn about and employ your child’s love languages early on and continuously.

This aggression can also often be observed in adults. Many have no idea about the cause of their anger. Maybe their parents tried to drive it out of them instead of dealing with them positively. Failing in one’s studies, problems at work and changing jobs frequently can all testify to this underlying problem. It can also lead to unnecessary quarrels in marriage.

Important points:

  • Anger in children should never be punished.

  • Children are helpless in the face of parental anger, which naturally produces either resignation or rebellion.

  • The main cause for anger and rebellion is always an empty love tank, unless it’s a problem of physical needs. A child will even interpret this violation as a lack of love.

  • A child’s most important daily question is, “Mommy, do you love me?” “Daddy, do you love me?”

  • How we handle anger reveals our degree of maturity.

What is Love?

Love is a term that often seems overused and worn out. We all know, “Love is what makes life worth living.” Despite this knowledge, in our everyday lives we don’t make many special efforts in that direction. Somehow we get distracted. What a shame . . .  

Wikipedia: "Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.”

Love is a strong feeling springing from an attitude of intimate and deep emotional bonds with a person (or a group of people), in which the purpose or benefit thereof exceeds that of other interpersonal relationships. The feeling of love can be generated regardless of whether it is reciprocated or not. Love, which is lasting, and the phase of “being in love”, which is limited in duration, are two different states and must be differentiated. 

....Es geht nichts über die LIEBE. Sie ist das grösste Geschenk, das wir von unserem Schöpfer erhalten haben. Bei IHM können wir jederzeit unseren Liebestank wieder aufladen. Wer das gelernt hat, ist eigentlich zu beneiden ! ..Nothing is greater tha…

Nothing is greater than LOVE! It is the biggest gift we have received from our Creator. He can fill our love tank any time. Those who have discovered this secret are to be envied!!!

How Anger can be Transformed to Love

Anger, hatred, rage and aggravation can make those affected by them not only blind, but also sick. Those who cannot forgive suffer more often from heart disease, depression, asthma and intestinal illness. Bad feelings can also trigger allergies, sleeping disorders and cardiac dysrhythmia.

Positive and Negative Responses to Anger

Both adults and children can express themselves in different ways when angry.  The following escalating forms of anger can show where you or your child stands regarding this.

Negative Behavior (from minor to major)

  1. Aggravating and loud

  2. Anger expressed in areas outside of the problem at hand

  3. Name-calling

  4. Additional complaints cited

  5. Emotionally destructive

  6. Cursing

  7. Throwing objects

  8. Destroying others’ property

  9. Violence

  10. Passive aggressive behavior

Positive Behavior (from low to high intensity)

  1. Easygoing

  2. Looking for solutions

  3. Concentrating anger on the actual cause

  4. Limiting the conversation to the one original complaint

  5. Logic leading to solutions

....Vom Ärger direkt zum Kuss, das ist leichter gespielt als getan. Das Verständnis der bedingungslosen Liebe kann dabei eine grosse Hilfe dabei sein. ..Going from anger directly to a kiss is more easily play-acted than done for real. An understandi…

Going from anger directly to a kiss is more easily play-acted than done for real. An understanding of unconditional love can be of great help.

6 Steps to Transform Anger to Love 

1. Admit Anger

Our pride often prevents us from admitting our weaknesses in the presence of others. Where there is pride, there is trouble. Those who deny and suppress their aggression hurt themselves and their surroundings. Those who allow themselves can think and pray about their weakness so that God can give them clear instructions from His Word. It is extremely valuable to keep the Word present in our thoughts. There are many deep insights that can help us in our day-to-day life.

2. Analyze Anger

"What was it that hurt me the most? Which of my important values was violated?  Which of my rights was questioned? Why am I taking it so hard?" The three main causes for unjustifiable anger are selfishness, perfectionism and an attitude distorted by fear.

3. Put Anger in the Right Words

If possible: before you say anything, try a little prayer before the encounter. That can be enormously helpful.

Aggression and anger are often self-perpetuating. They get shouted and screamed, and are often accompanied by violence. Often one’s partner or the children are shut out. Dishes are demolished, clothes torn, or abominable language is used to terrorize souls. All these things lead nowhere good; they only destroy what has been built up with effort. Therefore, aggression should be expressed, but the right way. Speak in the first person: “I have a problem . . .”; the YOU-style sounds more like an accusation and tends to be unobjective.   

4. Clarify Guilt

Are you really convinced that the other person is to blame? How quickly we forget to take all relevant factors into consideration. Ask yourself, “Where have I erred? In what way did I promote the undesirable behavior of the other?” Those who can recognize and carry their share of the blame in matters of interpersonal wounds, effectively pulls the destructive teeth out the beast called “Anger.” If you begin by declaring your own guilt, it is easier for the other person to own up to their part of the guilt. An old German saying: (Ein Mann ist soviel Mann, wie er Schuld tragen kann) in English according to Terri:

  • "The inner stature of a man can vary

  • according to the measure of guilt he can carry." 

5. Have Christian Rules of Behavior been Infringed?

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, for this is the law and the prophets,” or "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Read the rules for life found in the book of Proverbs! In many places in the Bible we can recognize principles for daily living: a careful reading of God’s Word can sharpen our conscience.

6. Decide to Forgive

Forgiveness is the hardest but also the most profitable duty of love. Forgiveness is the exact opposite of what we are naturally inclined to do: get revenge, payback, humiliate the other. Those who forgive not only do others a huge favor, but also themselves. Those who do not forgive harm themselves more. Forgiveness is the crucial key to freedom.

....Es ist sicher auch Ihr Wunsch, dass wir alle nicht einfach das Handtuch werfen, sondern durch Übungen zum Meister darin werden, aus höchst unangenehmen Umständen positive zu machen, sozusagen ein Meister der Umstände zu werden. ..It is surely yo…

It is surely your wish, as well as mine, that we don’t all just give up and throw in the towel, but that we practice until we become masters at transforming highly uncomfortable situations into positive ones, becoming so to speak, masters of circumstances.

Summary

We have seen that the emotion ANGER holds great opportunities to generate a higher quality of life. When it is handled constructively, an important barrier on the way to happiness has been crossed. Parents who help their children in this area increase their children’s EQ , which helps build a solid foundation for happiness and contentment.

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