Questions

1.  Why is it that when two or more children gather to play the first thing they do is develop a game based on fighting?

2.  How is it that a 4 and a 5 year old know how to play at fighting with their toys?

3.  Why is it you receive blank stares when you suggest that children play at creating something instead of destroying it?

4.  When you suggest, Try doing something that involves teamwork.  Why do pre-schoolers immediately tell you they are going to kill the bad guys.

5.  Why is it small children know more about the functioning of a gun than a camera?

6.  What am I doing to teach children to play together creatively and nonviolently?

7.  Why do we seem to forget that children do not raise themselves in a vacuum?

8.  Doesnt it seem odd that we teach our children not to fight, hit, or talk inappropriately by hitting them?

9.  Did you know the number one predictor of adult violent behavior is how much neglect a child perceives from the primary father figure?

10.  Did you know that behavior creates new neural pathways?

11.  Why dont we teach our children about playing with something besides weapons?

12.  Why are our most revered heros the ones that promote violence?

13.  Why can our children name every player on their fathers favorite team but cant tell you the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?

14.  Dont you find it interesting that our televisions and media centers take up the center of our homes?

15.  What does it mean to create peace?

16.  Even though our reported violent crime rate is going down is our violent behavior rate?

17.  Healthy competition is good, what is unhealthy competition?

18.  I want children to be able to attend schools without fear, do you?

19.  I believe in the right of every child to compete, to lose, to learn what it means to have to work for their rewards, and to feel safe, do you?

20.  People live their lives based on the choices they make, why dont we help them choose peace?