| "Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. | | | | adult that 'one doesn't necessarily need to show one's |
| Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. | | | | emotions to the outside world'. This mostly leaves the |
| Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. | | | | child petrified and baffled as it seems to be un-natural |
| Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it." | | | | and not logical to show what one feels. These genuine |
| Is an abstract of a poem about a child's innocence and | | | | emotions are more often corrected by the adults and |
| his/her childlike nature. | | | | always shunned. |
| Children are like a mirror or more like a transparent | | | | When adults, implicitly or explicitly, define children's |
| glass, where one can see through their emotions, | | | | emotional states of being from their own (adults) |
| feelings and thoughts so clear and so very evidently. | | | | perspective, they risk ignoring, minimizing, distorting, or |
| When the child learns to comprehend and understand | | | | denying children's emotions. This is unacceptable. It |
| the world around him/her and expresses with the | | | | frequently sabotages the innocence of the child that |
| purest of intentions. Especially at times of crises and | | | | would be lost forever. Wearing the mask is something |
| agony, a child can never conceal the response to the | | | | like being trapped into oneself in a complicated way. It |
| situation. But over time as s/he adapts to the way of | | | | is left to us to decide what we want our future |
| the world based on the observation or instruction of an | | | | generation to be; masked or innocently true? |