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recognised by any of the services available to this struggling
child. Yes there are some people who are beginning to see that
this may be the case but their professions forbid them to state
this, and insist they continue to expound the theory of the
difficult child who is rebelling or better still rejecting the
professions truth and seeking it’s own unique truth. If one
were to ask the child for insights into where it sees itself one
would get an interesting answer, especially if the child is
allowed to be free, or feel they are free to say it exactly how it
is for them. Unfortunately should the child not answer in the
popular way they will suffer derision and punishment of some
form. Children are capable of educating the adult, but often
the adult is unable to learn from the child. Such is the
conditioning of the adult and such is the conditioning the
adult seeks to impose on the child. All profess to love their
children, but only within the terms of the social conditioning
that pertains within the society they are members of.

With this awareness we can begin to consider the best
approach for the child to take to the subject of life. The child
will continuously try to please the adults, There is however a
gulf between pleasing and being pleased. Pleasing would
amount to the child acquiescing to the demands of the adults,
which are often determined by their dysfunctional
understanding of life purpose, the spiritual purpose, and the
failure to recognise the important aspect with which to
understand this purpose and to nurture it, especially in the
child. The child will become desensitised to its own feelings
and become addicted to the pleasing of all except itself. The