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Early Childhood Education Guidelines for parenting from the Brotherhoods inform us that the proper teaching of children is essential to the progress and maintenance of a high level of civilization. Based on millennia of observation and experience in Lemuria and other advanced cultures, it became obvious to the Brotherhoods that only highly developed individuals can comprise a culture which is to produce Initiates in large numbers. Each child must receive optimum support and training if he is to be neurologically, emotionally and psychologically fulfilled. Intelligence testing results involving thousands of people indicate a correlation between birth order and intelligence. The results proved to be independent of social, economic, educational and racial class. Having children only two or three years apart detracts from the parents’ ability to maintain a close, one-to-one teaching relationship with the young child. When the child receives the attention he needs, he should be able to read by age three and to write by age four. Every genius in this world was the recipient of just such attention from a caring adult. In families where the parents are psychologically mature and the children are spaced six to ten years apart, each child is allowed the opportunity to be raised almost like an only child so that siblings are not competing for the same kinds of parental attention. There is a misconception that we are born with a given intelligence and are fixed in a narrow range that is determined to be our IQ. Within all of us is the potential for genius. But unless we are taught how to use our brains, we may never approach truly intelligent functioning. The parent is the child’s most important teacher. It is the parents who establish the foundations for emotional and psychological health. They teach a sense of values and pass on the culture. Scientific research indicates that critical windows for the various areas of neurological development are active for a brief span of time and primarily in the first six years, particularly around age two. The best time to teach a child to read is well before he learns to speak. Children who have been given the right stimulus when they are ready to receive it, such as cuddling and bonding with their parents, are accelerated in their development. Having a healthy child requires planning by the prospective parents before the child is conceived. When the parents take a look at their own bodies and correct any inadequacies, the developing child has a much better chance of reaching his full potential. The diet based on more natural, less processed food (with about 60% or more consisting of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts) supports good health. Avoiding refined sugar, refined grains, dairy products, fried foods, and preservatives aids in building a strong immune system that protects the child from disease. When parents detoxify their systems, improve their diets by choosing natural foods, exercise, and take food supplements (when the food they eat is grown on mineral depleted soils), their properly functioning bodies provide a better environment from which the child’s body can develop. Every child has the potential for genius--a potential so broad that all children can be talented in music, have perfect pitch, express themselves artistically, perform mathematics expertly, and follow the scientific method to deduce the laws of nature. If you teach children the facts, they will intuit the laws. A superior education involves the accumulation of skills and application of information to real life experiences. To teach a child more than we have been taught requires extra study. The life of the parent is enriched as he learns with the child; so there is a benefit for both. For a more complete discussion of this subject please order the "Early Childhood Education" article listed in the Philosophy Seminars section. |
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