6 year olds: they're on a bridge
Not yet big, not small anymore. Already big, but still small.
Carlotta Cerri
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Fondatrice de La Tela
3 gennaio 2022·6 commenti
When they’re 6, children have one foot in the first plane of development and one in the second: they’re already big, but still small.
It’s as if they’re alone on a bridge that takes them to puberty: sometimes they run to the other side and we see them so big; other times they look back, they see us further away, and remember that maybe they don't really want to be big. And so they come back. At that moment they might behave uncomfortably, like "small children”: it’s not a regression, it’s their need for our presence, to keep us closer a little longer, because they realise that they are moving further and further. Let's welcome them.
It’s as if they’re alone on a bridge that takes them to puberty: sometimes they run to the other side and we see them so big; other times they look back, they see us further away, and remember that maybe they don't really want to be big. And so they come back. At that moment they might behave uncomfortably, like "small children”: it’s not a regression, it’s their need for our presence, to keep us closer a little longer, because they realise that they are moving further and further. Let's welcome them.
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Carlotta Cerri
– Fondatrice de La Tela
Sono la fondatrice de La Tela, creatrice del podcast Educare con calma e dal 2019 viaggio a tempo pieno con la mia famiglia Alex, Oliver ed Emily. Mi ritengo una visionaria pessimista: so come voglio cambiare l’educazione e che genitore ho scelto di essere, ma la maggior parte dei giorni mi sembra di scalare pareti di vetro. Ma forse proprio per questo so come aiutarti quando mi scrivi: perché ci passo anche io per quel disagio e ti dico le verità scomode con gentilezza e senza giudizio.
