Two Children Argue

How a behavior has its roots already in early childhood.
Two children play together in a swimming pool. They feel fine and might share the parts: One of them is pushing the floatation device, the other one is sitting on it and enjoys oneself. So it worked out for a while. But at a certain point one child ran towards the father and cried because it also wants to sit on the device and to be pushed around, but the other doesn’t want to. So the father enhanced the situation by telling that the game has to be shared, therefore the parts have to be exchanged too. Thereupon the conflict seemed to be cleared and everything was just fine again.

The looking for so called higher instances to solve for example disputes seems to be somehow born with us. Already in early childhood the looking and asking for mother and father to support the own demanding, ideas and expectations is pronounced.

Particularly when the children have the feeling that they are here or there in good hands and someone is listening to them. According to my opinion you may notice it especially because of the appearance of close feelings towards there counterpart. In this example it’s the father who enjoys enough confidence.

Somehow with the same attitude it continues within adulthood. Who gained good experiences with his parents or other close persons of trust is not going to be bound to be open for this kind of higher powers and values too. The one who made opponent experiences which were caused by whatsoever, is going to have more problems being that positive way. Today I even believe that the repressive experiences not only affects avoiding, but even sabotaging and rejecting behaviors are going to be.

In both cases it might be decisive that the human is happy with his behavior, and is going to feel this happiness as it as well. This might not be the case in general, even just being only an optimum. Nevertheless it’s a suitable and especially mature attitude to stepwise facing the real facts. This determined action complies with the behavior of even those mature people we look up to.
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   By Patrick Roemer
Published: 10/26/2009
 
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