The perspective is new after the experience.

Nanny or not….here I come.

I want to talk about my experience of perspective changes that happened after working as a professional nanny. Of course I wanted to work as a nanny because I love to be around children and I love their energy and passion for life and learning. I love their sweet way of pronouncing words and innocent 100% truthful transparency. I love the way they develop a sense of humor and the sound of their hard laughter that comes from deep in the belly. I loved being a nanny and that is why I have worked so hard to make it my profession. I took child development classes and taught at some of the best pre-schools. I believe in the importance of every humans development from ages 0-5 and I am a proud parent of two wonderful growen children.

Im going to write very little about the very big subject of perspective.

Things like keeping the main thing the main thing can be applied to everyone at every job. I started to think about what that main thing is to me at my job and how that is actually a learned skill mixed with a life skill, so it is both, nature and nurture. I noticed my position and perspective could be helpful to others, so now I will to try to explain and hope you will see the change of perspective after this experience as well.

My job is based on children and their development. In child development courses we learn about nature and nurture and study a lot of different theries and thealogens and collect a lot of different titles to identify many individual differences in our stages of developmental growth. We use words like theorist or behavior and we learn about the names of conditions for certain types of behaviors on a spectrum.

Are these titles helpful to our learning about each other or do we have titles for our own protection. It seems like titles are there to protect the people using the title. But why do we need protection from a conversation about an individual or about an observation?

Is keeping the main thing the main thing a truth or is it a relative term?

How is someone going to be understood during a conversation about children and make a statement like ‘keeping the main thing, the main thing’ if it’s a relative term?

Currently, I am not working by choice. I have been looking but that is another conversation and Im going to stay focused on the perspective change after the experience.

The other day I had a conversation with a new parent and ‘the main thing’ came up. The parent smiled at me and nodded her head in agreement. It was as if we had an understanding. It was about the children and what’s best for them…..being the main thing. I was pleased and the conversation ended well…I thought. It turns out her main thing is not the same as my main thing. Her main thing was getting a warm body in the house so she could go do her job. I admire and understand the challenges of being a single parent and making the rent and paying the bills. I have absolute respect for this parent and I want to use this example to expose our difference in perspective. I want to tell you what I thought the main thing was. I thought the main thing was about the childrens development and nurture. Her main thing was making sure someone was going to show up so she could get her work done.

Here’s where the main thing may be a disconnect in phrase and its ideology.

 Why would I make note of this observation and what difference does it make? Everyone has their own individual differences. I had a new perspective after this experience and wanted to share how the perspective is new after the experence.

Seriously, here’s the bottom line of my concern: Each generation has a timeline of events that took place for us to observe the cause and effect of those events on each generation.

I’m looking at this generation. I’m living in my timeline and seeing radical changes happening in real time.

What is the main thing today? That is a large umbrella to label but If I had to categorize the umbrella it would be in the technology department. 

Why is that a concern for me? That is a concern for me because I’m observing the lack of importance with all things human. This is a small sound bite for a bigger picture. 

Hello, may I introduce Artificial Intelligence.

A/I and Humanity.

Either/Or, both/and. Is it possible for children to have both/and, when it comes to skills in 

A/I and humanity.

My concern is about the development and growth that happens in the first five years of life. Those years seem to set the stage for what’s to come in every aspect.

While those five years come and go quickly we still struggle with the skills needed to get through it. Lack of patients, lack of sleep, lack of work, lack of health, lack of money are just 5 things out of 100 that take place during the first 5 years and challenge the very core of most parents.

The humanity part of being human is becoming a skill. This may sound a little obvious as if it was always a skill that we learned as we grew, however, today’s world is not requiring that we live our lives as we once did and with that a new skill has arrived: the skill of what I call humanistic AI.

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