why we are here?

Question

ok I dont need to look any further for answers...
why didnt I think of it before

I asked my 6 year old why she thinks we are here
she told me
Just to help each other and learn how to be nice to each other

problem solved

why can't we all think like kids ?
why don't we take advice from kids ?
they seem to have it all worked out don't they

Alan I asked her why adults cant think like children
she said , they cannot cope with each other as well as children can
children understand each other
and adults find problems with each other

Answer 1

That is so nice.

Answer 2

Yeah, they do seem to have it all worked out, but it's worth remembering that kids exist largely within the sphere of their own understanding. Money doesn't figure in their rivalries and their dealings with each other (at least not directly), and their world is constructed within a support structure (in most cases anyway) - parents, family, whoever, that take care of their basis needs, and in the majority of cases, some of their higher needs and wants too. So they are free to do what our society says they should - learn, play, develop an idea of what they like, what they're good at, and how these things will shape their future. What I mean is, solutions are easier to find when a) your world doesn't contain the full complexity that the adult world does, and b) your essential needs are taken care of without reference to your own efforts.

The only thing that's moderately depressing about this is that it would tend to mean the ideal government would be made up of aristocrats, and probably only aristocrats. And we've been there and done that, and ending up having teenage temper tantrums, or revolutions as we pretentiously called them, storming into our bedrooms and shouting that they didn't understand us and we never asked to be born. Now we're like a 20-something democracy, seemingly happy, but plagued by the nagging awareness that we can't make our relationships work and that maybe, just maybe, our parents knew a thing or two after all...

Answer 3

Your daughter has a good mother to learn from.

Kids look at people differently, not dwelling on certain issues, Kids over look most differences.

Kids spirits-souls are still at a closer stage, like as if their spirits are part in that dimension where they know God, from when they were sent to be born and redeemed. Perhaps that's why younger kids see more than what some adults don't.
We are still like kids in a way, we are always learning something new. Your daughter is correct, that is the main reason why we are here to learn and build our spirit full of knowledge, not only in this life, but also on another higher level in the next.:)

Answer 4

I.m pretty much an atheist, and I think I always try to see the world through the eyes of a child. Many small children are very social, and they don't discriminate (if they're not taught to by their parents). They help animals, do all kinds of things to raise money and things like that, and they love it. Children, how helpless they themselves may be, always say "why don't these grown-up do something about it?" Like all these starving people in Africa. Children don't know yet many of the details (but most grown-ups don't know anything either) and that it's not always possible to help everybody, but we can help a hell of a lot of them. Why don't we see it through the eyes of a kid, and say, yes we can help them? It'll cost us some, but we wouldn't even really notice it.
Grown-ups only seem to be around to make life hard for each other.

Answer 5

Outta the mouths of babes, babe!
I'm not Christian, but I do think this is a good example of why the Christ said "suffer the little children to come unto me..."
My 7 year old nephew is pure love like that :)

Answer 6

Can I ask HER that same Question = = in 10-Years?

What will HER Answer Be THEN?

Thanks, RR

My Answer.

(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: = = Fear God, = = and keep his commandments: = = for this is the whole duty of man.

(Ecc 12:14) For God shall bring = = every work into judgment, = = with every secret thing, = = whether it be good, = = or = = whether it be evil.

Answer 7

We are here to fulfill our Divine potential, to experience ourselves and each other (same thing if omnipresence is truly understood) as the greatest expression of the greatest dream of the greatest love that we truly are.

Blessed Be

Answer 8

I was going to say I don't know - but I agree with what your daughter said.
I have always thought adults are pains, and more so when I have to commute to/from work.

Answer 9

That's precisely why I don't want to grow up. Physically, I am 42 but I am still very much a child in my heart and in my thought. Have you seen Neverland?

Answer 10

I'm 15, but i can think on both sides, a child and an adult, well an adult develops over a period of time!! its like asking, do those shoes suit me?

Answer 11

The very reason why Jesus said, suffer the little children come unto me.
Our children often times have a better grasp on things simply because we make them complicated when they are really very simple.
God Bless you and your daughter.