I don’t have all the answers (and that’s okay) 😌
If this project is teaching me anything, it’s that I don’t need to have all the answers to be a good teacher 👩🏫.
What I need is to:
Educating is also about accompanying doubts 🤔, silences 🤫, and emotions 💖. And this blog is, deep down, a way to accompany myself 🌱 through the process.
Hi there! 👋
I know there’s already a whole section just for videos, but the ones I found here are so special that I think they deserve their own little spotlight ✨.
These videos let us see the world through children’s eyes, hear what they think, feel, and wonder about 🌈. Sometimes, kids say things so honest, funny, or touching that we just have to share them! 💖
Take a peek 👀 and enjoy these little gems, they might surprise you, make you smile, or even give you a fresh perspective 💡
Today I came across something that made me smile 😄 and think 🤔 at the same time: Bald Cartoons, a Cartoon Network campaign in Brazil 🇧🇷. Yes, bald cartoons 😆.
But it’s not just for fun 🎉: the campaign supports children with cancer 💛. Characters like Garfield, Hello Kitty, or Snoopy appear without hair 🐱🐶 so that little ones who lose theirs during treatment feel accompanied 🤗. Seeing their favorite cartoons bald says: “It’s okay, it’s not a big deal” 💖.
It made me realize that something so simple and fun 🎨 can have a huge impact 🌟. And also, seeing Garfield without hair… well, it makes you smile too 😆💛
Spoiler: there is no universal explanation ⚠️
But so do:
Sometimes adults look for “the perfect phrase” 💬, when in reality the most important thing is being available ❤️. Saying, “I don’t know, but we can think about it together 🤝” can be more educational than a very well-structured explanation 📚.
Children’s Listening Day Exists in This Blog! 🎉👂💛
I’ve been thinking for a while… and I did a little research to see what it takes to establish an official international day. It turns out there’s a whole serious process: pa-pa-pa-pa… 📝✉️🌍 You have to write to international organizations, get support from associations, publish proposals… all sorts of official things that, honestly, I just can’t do alone. 😅
So I decided to do something simpler but just as important: in this blog, Children’s Listening Day exists! 🎈👧🧒✨
We’ve chosen February 12 as our special day. 📅💫 It doesn’t coincide with any major international celebrations, so we can mark it as our moment to remember what really matters: truly listening to children. 💛👂🌈
To celebrate it, I’ve added a countdown ⏳🖥️ in the right sidebar, showing the days remaining until our community’s special day. A fun way to remind ourselves that children deserve to be heard. 🥰💬
My work on this blog is all about something very important: children have the right to talk about difficult topics, even those many consider taboo. 💔🌧️😢 Illness, death, complicated emotions… they need space to express themselves, and we, as adults, need to give them the attention and respect they deserve. 🌟💖🤲
So, every day until our Children’s Listening Day, let’s remember that listening to a child isn’t optional, it’s essential. 💛👂💫 Because their words matter, their feelings matter, and their questions deserve thoughtful answers. 📝❤️🌈
Silence also communicates 🤫
Many times, we think that not talking about something is a way to protect 🛡️. But what I’m learning is that silence doesn’t always protect.
Children observe 👀. They notice changes 🔄. They overhear incomplete conversations 💬. And when they don’t receive explanations, they make them up 🤯. Sometimes those explanations are far scarier than reality 😨.
Talking about difficult topics doesn’t mean dumping all the information at once. It means:
listening 👂adapting your language 🗣️answering what they ask ❓ (not what we imagine 💭)Communicating doesn’t mean dramatizing 🎭, but it also doesn’t mean hiding 🙈.
Just an ordinary day on the internet🌐
Today I hadn’t planned to research anything for my project 😌. In fact, I was focused on other classes and assignments that had nothing to do with childhood, emotions, or communication.
But we all know how the Internet works… a scroll here, a click there, and suddenly you’re watching things you never imagined 🌐. In my case, I ended up watching a comedy video 🎭: a father explaining to his three kids that their grandmother had passed away. Yes, it sounds dramatic 😢, but the video presented it so absurdly and surrealistically that I was laughing while watching it 😂.
And then… boom 💥. While I was laughing at the literalness of the child drawing his grandmother in a coffin, I realized something important: this has everything to do with my project. Although it’s funny, the video showed how adults often speak from fear 😟: fear of saying something wrong, of hurting, of not knowing what to answer. And children… well, they process it in their own way, sometimes very literally, sometimes unexpectedly 🤔.
So yes, I confess: I ended up taking mental notes 📝 between laughs. This project doesn’t live only in books 📚 or classrooms 🏫; it’s also in random internet videos 🎥, in absurd moments that make you think more than you expected 💭… and yes, even in comedy about kids and grandparents 😅.
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