Reflective essay on What adults can learn from kids

I chose the second video, which explains about ‘What adults can learn from kids. I often thought that sometimes kids are better than adults, so I felt sympathy toward this video. Well, if summarize this video's contents, Adora explains us her experiences, examples and the reason why adults can learn from kids, and finally how. (This is URL of Adora's blog.-http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V-bjOJzB7LY, and this video is the video.)

 First, I think adults can learn curiosity, imagination, ideas from kids. Most adults' thoughts are limited, but kids' aren't. In my case, my art teacher ordered me to make an artwork which consists of newspaper and paint. It should be a useful artwork like chair, desk... But I made a human-shaped chair, which I named 'Thinking woman' It has no facial expression, but it appears its mind... My art teacher was really surprised of that idea. She recommended every other students to think about much more designs of it, and they achieved many good works.

 Second, adults can learn some kids' purity. Adults often read someone's expression, but kids don't. They express and appear their feeling straightly. I mean like "But it seems not a good idea. How about this?",even if it was some words for older person. Do you think this is rude? If it was adult's words, it should be like this. "Wow, really good idea. In fact, there's an idea which is a little different from yours, but your idea is far more better!" , if it was his boss's idea. I think adults' kindness and polite movements, expressions are good, but sometimes even they can't argue their ideas, their thoughts. In my case, I like being polite, but I explain my thoughts. Kids don't think it is rude or anything. But adults say "How can you argue your thoughts to adults? How rude you are!" I saw many situations like this, and I have experiences like this. Even if I can logically rebut their thoughts, I don't. Because they are older, so they can just say they have more experiences. Then-suddenly I will be a rude girl.

 Third, kids can really enjoy something. This one can be similar to second one, but it is a little different. Kids don't become embarassed of funny things. But even they are laughing, adults often act small and worry about how they will show themselves. In my case, when we were watching a comic video in our classroom, kids all laughed loudly, freely. But only my teacher laughed about three times, trying not to be seen strangely. I never noticed that laughing loudly aren’t such polite movements.

 So my conclusion is that adults can learn something from kids. Adults should respect kids' imagination- which is far more wider than adults'. And adults should resemble kids' purity- and ability of enjoying. Aren't there lots of better things? We should learn from them, more younger kids.