[WAR] Concluding remarks on the U.S. Election

[Zenaan Harkness]

>    It is others who must examine their own
>    values and own perspectives on a life fit to live.
>    "
> 
> Amen.

More contemplation "on a life fit to live":


Ten commandments to parents from man who walked into gas chamber
http://www.pravdareport.com/society/stories/01-11-2016/136043-parents_children-0/

Janusz Korczak was an outstanding Polish pedagogue, writer, doctor and
social activist who refused to save his own life three times. The first
time it happened when Janusz decided not to emigrate to Palestine before
the occupation of Poland not to leave the "The House of Orphans" to the
mercy of fate prior to terrible events.

He refused to save his life again when he refused to escape from the
Warsaw Ghetto. It happened for the third time when Janusz Korczak and
all tenants of the "House of Orphans" embarked on a train on the way to
the concentration camp. When in the train, an SS officer approached
Janusz Korczak and asked him: "Did you write "King Matt"?" I read this
book as a child. This is a good book. You can be free." "What about the
children?" Korczak asked the officer. "The children will go, but you can
leave the train," the officer said. "You're wrong. I can not. Not all
people are bastards," Korczak replied.

A few days later, in Treblinka concentration camp, Korczak and his
children entered a gas chamber.

On the way to death, Korczak was holding two of the youngest children,
telling them a fairy tale story. Naturally, the little kids did not even
suspect what was going to happen to them. In principle, one does not
have to know more about the man whose name was Janusz Korczak. However,
one does need to read the list of ten commandments that the amazing man
recommended to parents for the education of children:

1. Do not expect your child to be what you are or what you want him to
   be. Help him become what he is, rather than what you are.

2. Do not expect the child to repay you for all that you have done for
   him. You gave him life, so how can he repay you? He will give life to
   another and so on and so forth, and this is an irreversible law of
   gratitude.

3. Do not vent your grievances on the child, not to eat the bitter bread
   in old age. You reap what you sow.

4. Do not look down at your child's problems. Life is challenging to
   all, and it can be even more challenging to children, as children
   have no life experience.

5. Do not humiliate your child!

6. Do not forget that most important encounters that a person has in
   their life is encounters with children. Pay more attention to
   children - we never know whom we meet in a child.

7. Do not torment yourself, if you can not do something for your child,
   just remember: you have not done enough for a child, if you have not
   done everything possible.

8. The child is not a tyrant, who takes over your whole life. The child
   is not just your flesh and blood. The child is a Holy Grail that Life
   gave you to keep and light up the creative fire. The child is the
   liberated love of his mother and father, who will grow not just "our"
   or "their" child - they will grow a soul that was given to them to
   care for.

9. Be able to love someone else's child. Never do to someone else's
   child the things that you would never like to be done to yours.

10. Love your child no matter what kind of people they might be -
    untalented, unsuccessful, or already adult. Rejoice when interacting
    with your child, because your child is a celebration that you still
    have.