The Barometer to a child

Hi

this is something i feel is important, Temperament.

I have been musing on this for some months, perhaps since autumn last year.

excuse any trumpet blowing and inhumility, i say it to teach, not so you think i am a proud clown, sorry. it's more introspection than 'i think i am amazing, and you are pants'.

I have an 'Artistic Temperament' i think there other Temperaments, like a 'Practical Temperament' an 'Academic Temperament', also as i type i was trying to think of more because there MUST be more, perhaps a 'Social Temperament' please feel free to suggest more, even though i have no readers lol, anyhoo...

how is an Academic Temperament any different in genuity to a Practical one? I have an 'gifted' IQ but I marvel at men (or women) who strip a car and rebuild it, similarly with Academia, although I HATE the School system, which FYI is from the '40's (how can a School system from the forties not be anachronistic in 2010?)...... Why do I hate the School system, because it was NOT designed for me! it was designed for ACADEMIA, perhaps rightly so, but any tax money was wasted on me, well not all but perhaps a lot. my Artistic Temperament in School did not go well, i seemed dumb, maybe i was, i was certainly immature, but aren't kids supposed to be? I only ever learnt things that i already wanted to learn, so it was pretty useless trying to teach me anything unless i deeply respected you, like a mentor, no duh? huh? arty types like only ONE teacher, a mentor whom would never break there trust, not uniformity in class rooms, freedom to learn, not confinement to learn.

I was a little dumb weirdo, because no one seemed to care of my method of learning, my aunt whom i lived with was a school teacher and very very academic and strict, looking back i think she feared i was stupid, still today i can't spell lol and no, i am not dyslexic, it's just at the time in my childhood when i was 'supposed' to learn how to spell, i felt an Academic Claustrophobia like being a 3 year uni student in Primary 5 (10 yo), i just couldn't cope with the stress, and wanted to walk away, but felt forced imprisonment to the little jail of School. I have often said to others 'it's like prison for children' well it was to me in my day.

I used to sit around the back of the school starring at the form of stones and thinking alone, about time and life. I had no idea this was medtition..

schoolwise these children like me, are bored, not in the 'i have gotten bored of this toy', or 'i will cost you a lot of money' way, but in morale these children need enthusiasm, if you're a parent, YOUR enthusiasm, a deep kinship with there parents, children have an inherent nature to find out about there parents, you NEED them that is why you had them, in God and in Virtue they are your blessing, your world.

a child with a Practical Temperament , (and i will admit i am 'skating' here as i do not know what is is like to have such) likes to dismantle things and see how they work, (i liked to do this too, but i didn't really want to reassemble them lo)l such a child will have pride in himself or herself also in reassembly as well.

an Academic Temperament thrives in uniform learning and sharing what is learnt, an Artistic is introspective, so does not thrive on sharing information, but taking a long time to digest the information and then processing it in a unique way until it is ready to be shared with others.

my heart is too sore to write anything more, so CYaL :)

peace

Dava