Educating A Grasshopper

Are you familiar with Aesop's fable "the Ants and the Grasshopper" as retold by Disney?
A grasshopper unconcerned that winter is coming fdidles and plays through his day.
He tries to convince of the worker ants to stop and like the beuaty of summer.
Fate is realized in winter, the grasshopper starving and cold collpases at the door of the ant colony. The ants, being board with winter, see a use for his cheerful fiddilng and take him in. The grasshopper "earns his keep" by entertaining the ants with music. I am raisnig a grasshopper; a child who is in no hurry to do anything but find's joy in everything. I am protecting him from the ants; people mainly in the shcool system that measure child development by how well you march in a row. I know surely as winter will come my job is to protect my grasshopper utnil his turn to bring light and joy into winter. My grasshopper is without fear.

He is the first one to jump into an ice cold lake for a swim.

He will always ride the biggest rollercoaster. And most impressive his is always the first to share with you casue he does not fear scarcity. Grasshoppers have no since of ugrency. I tell my child "run for the bus you're late." Atfer a couple of quick steps up the driveway he forgets the assigned mission to hurry and slows to explore the road ahead. I was volunteering in kindergarten with my little grasshopper when I was asked to conduct a simple test with all the kids. First they cut a clay ball into half with a popsicle stick and then I would roll the clay into a hot dog shaped for them to size up and cut in half again. One by one the kids were quick to show me they knew the meaning of half. Then it was my grasshoppers turn. At fisrt I was sickened, he was doing it wrong. He was not marching in a row.
As I watched he turned the hotdog lengthwise and slowly cut it into two long equal pieces. He was the only one that pointed out a different sloution that day. Ants are wonderful people I should know I am raising a couple of of them. They really do work hard to get the job done and bring order to the world.

An ant's weakness is they are fear dirven.
I can awlays get my ant kids to clean condominium. I just tell them what they are going to loose if they don't get their chores done.
The pulbic education system loves to tell children; you will never graduate, you will fail, you will never get a job, winter is coming.

This fear tactic works well if you're an ant, you quickly get into line and do what ever you're told. Teachers love ant kids.

They are the 'A' stduents. The trouble comes with lack of tolerance or undertsanding for non-ants.
Fear used to cotnrol and bring order into the ant world does not work on grasshoppers.
Far too many grasshopper kids are bieng medicated into ants. Ask yourself, as a parent do I buckle under pressure to bring my grasshopper into line with the ants?