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reciprocation is natural and should not be demanded. A child,
especially a two year old cannot judge. A child of this age has
little boundaries. This child will constantly seek, its primary
motivation is curiosity. This curiosity coupled with its energy
can make the carer be constantly on the alert to helping the
child develop a world where it recognises the boundaries but
is not necessarily restricted by them. The easy part of
parenting is catering for the physical needs of the average
child, the most difficult part is for the parent to develop an
understanding of this child's spiritual needs, it's need for this
body and the life this body can lead through the parents, but
only until the child becomes mature enough to assume
responsibility for itself.

The world of the two year old revolves totally around itself. It
becomes destabilised by its inability to communicate its needs
to its attending carer. It is aware that the parent is seeking to
impose its regime upon it and is uncomfortable about that.
The child unconsciously realises it is loosing a sense of where
it needs to be and of where it needs to go. There can even be a
form of mental depression as a consequence. Because of the
structure of society, which is constructed to secure the roe of
the human within its community, there is no provision for the
spiritual needs of the child. What was spiritual has now
become religious, and even with religion there is no real
consideration for the welfare of the child other than to make it
a servant of the church as soon as possible. From a spiritual
perspective there is no such event as original sin. Sin is not a
precept of Spirit or spirituality. Life is not a punishment nor is