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to give any guidance or assistance to the developing child in
their care? Every adult will have reached this stage in their
own life but will have usually made decisions based on the
culture and religion they belonged to at that time. As an adult,
should they not have reconciled with their past, they will no
doubt suggest to the child that "life is never easy and that we
just need to accept that and do what we can with it". In reality
life is meant to be great and happy and then there is no need to
accept the pain and unhappiness we may find it presenting. As
adults we need to use this hypothesis and present it to the
child so that they may always find the right path to take, even
if it means they have to take the wrong one first. The spiritual
philosophy will always enable the aware to transform the
toughest situations into blessings and the result is always
happiness and fulfilment. When the child asks which path it
should take, we must ask them which one they think it is and
support them on their choice with the proviso that the right
choice is simply the one that they feel will make them happy.

Twelve is a difficult age for the child, it is so close yet not old
enough to begin to "kick off the traces" that, it is
unconsciously aware, have been imposed upon it by the adult
world. The child is still in a "pleasing" mode, yet it is
somewhere aware that it is time to stop being so. Towards the
end of the twelfth year the child might become slightly
withdrawn as it tries to cope with the many changes that are
taking place in it's life. It is experiencing physical attraction to
others, other than its parents. This attraction doesn't appear to
have a gender bias either. It is the seeking of love, spiritual