One Baha’i perspective on children
22 Mar
Took one of the youth to Greenacre Baha’i school on Friday. We had a brilliant time, visited with old friends, and definitely discovered some gems on the used books table, including “When We Grow Up,” by Bahiyyih Nakjhavani. The following paragraph, from the introduction of that book, suggests an understanding of childhood that recalls the poetry of A.A. Milne.
We have all been children. Maybe not all of us have been or will be parents, but we have all had the experience of being a child. No matter what race, what class, what culture we come from, we have all felt that peculiar smallness. We have watched the grown-ups come and go. We have tried to measure the meaning of our lives against their erratic and often contradictory motions.
