Kidizms

So what is this all about? And what the heck is a kidizm?

Well, it's my play on "kidism" - a word I made up, or maybe I heard it somewhere. It's a combination of "kid" (obviously) and "-ism" which is a practice, process or characteristic belief or quality of a certain group. So a "kidism" is something of a childlike quality or belief. For my purposes it's childhood wisdom. I think kids have a wisdom and honesty that's amazing and of a truer quality than you'll find with most adults. They see things plainly and often express what they think and feel the same way. So a big part of this blog is my attempt at looking at life situations from that kind of perspective.

Have you ever read this piece - not sure if it was a forwarded email, a poem or whatever called Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? It's a very cute and I'll say... accurate list of stuff like share and take turns: stuff that's applicable to life in general. Well I was thinking about some situations in my life the other day and that came to mind. Life was so much simpler back then. As I went down memory lane I realized there were definite parallels between the problems of life then and now, but since we're grown we come up with all of these complicated ways of handling it. I started to think, "How would I have handled this back in the day?"

Specifically my issue had to deal with "boys" as so many of womens' issues do. You see when I was a kid most of my friends were boys. I wasn't a tomboy, I was such a girly girl but that's just who I hung with. I didn't really have a lot of female friends until I joined a sorority. Of course as an adult maintaining male/female friendships gets complicated (usually by other people but that is a topic worthy of its own entry). Anyway, I was thinking on how to deal with this situation and since I think guys don't go through all the crazy emotional changes women do (guys correct me if I'm wrong), I figured what used to work could be the solution to my problems today. That led me to think so many other situations lend themselves to applying lessons I already - we all probably - already learned. We just have to think about them a little differently.

So that's a major purpose of this. To get us thinking about life without our layers of "grown up" thinking. No looking for ulterior motives and sneaking suspicions. Kids don't have those.

O and the pic is me at age 1 *smile*