Sorry I switched “future” for “any individual’s specific behavior.”
Guess you’re focused on helping people change their behavior.
Fair enough.
But I don’t think people can be changed unless their environments are changed, you know, you can’t will yourself to be different, while going through your same old routines.
Well the problem is that we’ve basically driven off the cliff, had enough warning, but we’ve been too in love with the same old same old, only bigger and better.
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I don’t know how to fix the broken, but I do know the key to not breaking kids to begin with, and that starts at birth.
It starts with looking into those little intense eyes and recognize there is someone in there sucking up as much information as it can, and then you start communicating with that infant being. When it cries, someone to pay attention and resolve the problem, babies don’t cry for spite, it’s the only way they can get our attention, to express that their little homeostasis issues, hunger, uncomfortable diaper full of piss and poop, etc.
Neglect and making babies work through their feelings of abandonment by letting them crying endlessly is what starts creating issues, that reverberates through the years. Just as love and caring attention reverberates years.
Treat infants like real people, look into their eyes and connect, recognize those eyes soaking in everything and head swiveling to turn their attention to sounds and all that jazz.
It’s human contact, attention, interaction and trust, that they need and it starts at birth, heck for parents at conception.
To raise a healthy child requires caretakers that love and pay attention. Caretakers that spend the days with them, carrying them around during active hours - introducing babies to their world, feeding their curiosity.
As the infant becomes a baby, then toddler with growing ego, becoming more an actual person as the early few years speed by, everything in the future years is built upon that solid foundation.
That’s the formula for a successful individual.
The problem with our post colonial consumerist global economy is that such a children inclusive lifestyle is impossible for most when money is all that matters.
Like I said I’m more focused on striving to recognize what is,
then presuming to be able to fix any of it.
The decades of public climate science education failure disabused me of those lofty notions.
All I really have any control over is myself and I’ve learned to appreciate the people who have been placed into my life’s path. Guess I’m rambling now.
good night
Ciao.
