There is no doubt that predators look for the people who can be controlled with fear and intimidation. The root of the English word "empowerment" is power- the ability to do, to accomplish, to perform or enable. The prefix "em" comes from the Latin and Greek, meaning "in" or "within." Empowerment, therefore, can suggest the power within people, the enormous reservoir of creativity, activity and potential contribution that lies within. You can't give, bestow, grant, authorize, delegate or impose empowerment. You create conditions to develop it.
If my next door neighbor turned out to be a pedophile, was making advances toward young children in the neighborhood, and I could not find a means to stop this, I would move. But moving a child to a good neighborhood would not be enough to create the resilience in a child necessary to avert bullies, abusers and the like. You can teach a child life skills, but efficacy includes the ability to act, take initiative, understand the situation. Self concept and self esteem flourish in an environment that supports them in the early years. Can we teach confidence? Or do we allow it to blossom by how we treat the child as he moves through developmental stages? In the bigger picture, community organization is key to violence prevention, If the societal laws and how they are applied are not a deterrent to violence, we can, at best, teach our kids to survive it. On Saturday, November 1, 2014 9:31:29 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Kids are kids until some fool empowers them by treating them as young > adults in order to view them as choosing a prostitute life-style. One > might consider sending kids to school abuse (they face bullying and > academic tortures) but so is keeping them at home away from other kids. My > dogs walk on leads where there is traffic. The cat is smarter with cars > and doesn't have a lead, though I once had a cat that insisted on one. > > On Saturday, November 1, 2014 8:41:34 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: >> >> You won't give a damn about "empowering" children from within. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
