How should we be teaching children in Kindergarten, if not through gender ideology and sexual orientation?
We should help them to have a reverence for all life, including insect, lizard, mouse, rabbit, fox and bird.
We should help them honor their feelings and experience, for when they truly learn to honor their own hearts, they will honor all beings.
We should show them how to care for their friends, inspiring kindness and compassion.
We should sing and dance with them, allowing them to embody joy, hold hands in circles, skip through the woods.
We should model gentleness, grace and courage, and show them how to love more.
We should allow them to run free in the fields, climb trees, walk through streams, and pick wildflowers, connecting to soul and spirit through felt lived experience.
We should help them learn to work with their hands, for hands are the instruments of the heart - and when hands are developed, so will the heart be.
And above all, we should create sacred space and boundary, allowing them to relax, to know that they are safe, and that we are watching over them. Through this somatic experience of safety, they will learn to be comfortable in their own skin, they will learn to integrate into community, they will learn their place in nature and the cosmos, and they will develop a natural reverence for all sentient life.
In helping to guide them in this way, they reflect back to us the sheer beauty of their miraculous innocence and wonder, reigniting within us these very same qualities.
