For Lilian and the Indigos - Above Top Secret

the children would never settle down and play together – nicely. With all the children
blaming each other for "starting it," the teachers could no longer tell who was truly good
and who truly needed some minutes in time-out.
There was one smart little boy who was not pretending, who truly was getting hurt, and
he was sick and tired of getting punished for the other children's mistakes. He felt as
helpless as the teachers. He came up with a brilliant plan that would bring peace and
ensure his status as a peace loving kid who shouldn't have to suffer cuz of others inability
to learn lessons the teachers tried to instill.
The only way his plan would work was if he himself did not seek revenge.
The next day the children were allowed some time to play or create something, but as
usual they wanted to fight instead. So the smart little boy went up to the teacher and said
he could help with their problem. He whispered the plan into the teacher’s ear. The
teacher smiled and said, "Thank you, now we will see who is peace loving and who is
not!"
At that moment the teacher announced a new rule, the rule was: WHOEVER FIGHTS
BACK IS THE ONE WHO GETS TIME-OUT, NOT THE ONE WHO "STARTS IT"
Now the children at first thought that was a wacky and unfair rule so the teacher said,
"OK, from now on that's the only rule," and the children thought that was a good
compromise
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?
The children were allowed the allotted playtime as usual and insisted on fighting as usual.
The smart little boy got pushed over and he did not fight back, he just got up and returned
to his Lego airplane. They broke his toy airplane and he simply stated, "wait," and started
an even better airplane... One little girl got a ball thrown at her ear and, boy, it sure hurt!
She picked it up and threw it back. "AAAHAAAH!" the children shouted, "you broke the
new rule!" Sure enough she had 10 minutes of time out. But you know kids, they have
short attention spans... Soon all the children were in time out. They could not abstain
from revenge with the exception of one smart little boy who stood in front of all the kids
in time out and said:
"I listened to the teacher. I have all the toys, and you cannot hurt me now." He then
proceeded to bitch slap each and every kid who hurt him, knowing they could do nothing
back...
Well, I can say that if I ran a daycare center, the other teachers would use that rule. They
would find it as wacky as the children would, but find it more effective than what they
normally do. The common problem in dealing with kids is that they don't differentiate
Discipline and Punishment as we adults do. They are processing karma like adults, adults
who fail to distance their own egos from the situation they find themselves in as teachers.