Childhood and
Education
The child
The spirit acquires more inner luggage
from incarnation to incarnation;
experience to experience.
Evolution
Love and Wisdom
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Moral Aspect
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Intellectual Aspect
Union of the soul to the body
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The good spirits teach us the union
begins at the moment of conception,
but is only complete at the moment of
birth. (The Spirits' Book Q.344)
Temporary Forgetfulness
Reasons:
 Spirit‘s Adaptation to the physical
body
Profound sleep
The spiritual body id restricted once
connected to the physical body that is
under formation.
Psychic frustration on the first seven
years of life („Therapeutic Hipnosis“)
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Moral effect from the Temporary
Forgetfulness
From the time of birth
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… ideas gradually take on shape and
impulse according to the development
of the organs;
The child; eternal and perfectible
spirit
Future superconscious
Present
conscious
Past
subconscious
Germ of
Perfection
Action
experiences
Will
Innate
ideas
Explanation from the Spirit Calderaro, book 'In the Higher Spiritual World'- Chapter 3
Past "luggage"
Impulses and
tendencies that
manifest since
early age
„Having been brought from past
existences, these good or evil instincts
will manifest themselves from early
childhood. It is necessary that parents
study these instincts; all badness
originates from selfishness and pride. So
be on the lookout for the least sign which
will reveal the existence of such vices,
and then take care to combat them
without waiting for them to take deep
root. (…)“ (The Gospel According to Spiritism;
Chap XIV 9)
State of Innocense in
Childhood
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„… a child, having had no opportunity as yet
to manifest any perverse tendencies,
presents us with an image of innocence and
purity….“. Allan Kardec
EDUCATION
During this period of dormancy, in which the
instincts are also latent, the Spirit is more
malleable, more accessible to impressions
which can modify the character and which
helps the Spirit progress…
HOME
„ No one can replace parents in the
EDUCATIONAL ESPHERE OF THE
CHILDREN‘S HEARTS “. (Spirit of
Humberto de Campos)
Meeting of Souls at HOME
Reasons:
 Redemption, support, affections,
disaffections, mission;
Objective:
 Strengthens links of - LOVE
It is at HOME that our challenges
start. Our children are spirits who
are connected to us by ties of
affection or reparation.
Meeting with sympathetic and
antipathetic spirits
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„ We come back in contact with
individuals we have affiliated with in
the past, through blood ties. These
links, either good or bad, happen
through the blessing of
reincarnation.“ Emmanuel
Children‘s Education
Parents‘ Mission
To prepare the
children
MATERIAL
SPIRITUAL
LIFE
LIFE
Childhood
The childhood makes children
more pacific; accessible to our advices.
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This is the perfect timing to educate
the reincarnating spirit
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This process continues through the
adolescence
(Relationship between Parents and Children - Umberto Ferreira)
Education: Important Points
LOVE AND KINDNESS
The ones who
receive it
The ones who
don‘t receive it
Are more balanced
and happy
Become needy,
agressive, rebelled
Love and kindness are powerful educational
resources, if used in a proper manner
(Relationship between Parents and Children - Umberto Ferreira)
Emmanuel‘s Comments
The moral education process, which
forms the character of the individual,
becomes more difficult after the
infancy period. If this educational
process hasn‘t been done at home,
once he/she reaches adulthood only
the violent process of harsh trials
could change the thought of these
human creatures.
( „O Consolador“)
DIALOGUE AND ATTENTION
•Agressive words stay
imprinted and exert
negative influence
•Use logical argument and
appropriate language to the
age and understanding of
the child.
•Parents must have the
patience to hear their
children
(Relationship between Parents and Children - Umberto Ferreira)
ENERGY AND PUNISHMENT
Sometimes parents need to act with
energy, even if love and dialogue is
used.
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RESOURCES THAT LEAD TO GOOD
RESULTS:
Make children assume the consequences
for their behaviour;
Restrict their trips, excursions,
outdoor activities
No more
violence
against
children!
Please Avoid
Corporeal punishment could be
avoided, since they establish:
Traumas
 Revolts
 Agressivity
 Unstability
 Inhibition
 Insecurity

MOTIVATION AND
REWARDS
Bem melhores
Não geram revoltas

Many parents forget to estimullate
the children when they do all their
tasks well; this is an omition;

Motivate and reward are much better
ways that reprehend and punish;
(Relationship between Parents and Children - Umberto Ferreira)
MOTIVATION AND REWARDS

Teach children that leasure
alternatives constitute prizes, but this
could also be taken away;

If parents process this way they are
not punishing their children, but
leaving to reward them.
Bem melhores
Não geram revoltas
FREEDOM

Children have the right to
freedom, but not excessively.

Parents need to dose it.

Freedom with no criteria could be
damaging for the child
FREEDOM

Children have the right to cry.
- Identify the cause
- Solve the problem
- Do not hit them

If he/she is just whining
- let the child cry until he gives up
- dose the level of attention
FREEDOM

The child has the right to play
„Children need freedom
at home “
Be aware!
Be careful with your choice of toys,
literature and TV programmes!
What are we offering to our
children?
What are we
teaching them?
It‘s necessary to educate the
feelings and cultivate science in our
hearts. Jesus‘ teachings have never
been more up-to-date: „Love one
another". Love is to educate
Your child
„ Love and educate him.
Offer him the best of your
soul, even if your chind
can‘t understand the
nobility of your sacrifice
and the sublimity of your
abnegation.
You will receive from our
Celestial Father the
blessings of happiness and
peace.
(Emmanuel- Family“)
Bibliography:
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Spiritist Education Pedagogy Practice, v.1, Walter
Oliveira Alves, DIE
A challenge called family, Jeamar Zandini
Nazareth, Edited by Minas
O Consolador
Relationship between Parents and Children,
Umberto Ferreira
Future uncertainty http://www.pime.org.br/mundoemissao/criancasfuturo.htm
Research done by Arlete Länzlinger
CEEAK- Centro de Estudos Espíritas Allan Kardec, Switzerland, 2006.
http://www.ceeak.ch/portugues/evangelizacao/palestras-educacao.htm