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I have suffered losses recently. I will not be specific about the nature of these losses. Rather I will just share with you the process of healing I am attempting. As a child losses are all-consuming—a break up is felt as the end of the world. As an adult, those losses are minimised in the “grand scope of things“ and we adults tend to “accept and move on.“ I ask you to pause and reconsider this tendency. Why should we “accept and move on“? As an adult losses are rationalised as just a part of the life process, not all-consuming, yet it is because these partial losses are so negligible that they are even more powerful. Are we to just admit that a child`s feelings are “childish“? Do we not do injustice upon childhood and children if we shelf our problems away?

My losses are everyone`s losses if they are losses of childhood. As a teacher I work with children, and to understand children one must have a mind of a child`s. So, I tell myself, instead of “moving on“ I will see my losses through so that they continue to be meaningful, so that childhood is sustained, and so I can continue teaching my children as their equal. To be their master is to be immune to their days; to be their equal is to be affected by their years. The question, when losses are part of the educational reality (and they are if we are dealing with childhood and growth), is, How can we grow together? How can we grow in an equal world with our students, with our kids, with our partners?