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Children's Honesty and Art – When a Child Sees What Adults Try to Understand
Children’s honesty and art are probably not the first things that come to mind when I sit down with my morning coffee. But after yesterday’s conversation with a nine-year-old neighbour, that is exactly what this post is about. 🇸🇪 Läs inlägget på svenska: Sometimes you don’t really know what to write about when you sit down at the computer in the morning. You take a sip of coffee, yawn a little…
Clarity for Children – When the World Shifts
Clarity and safety for children with NPF (neuropsychiatric conditions) often begin in the very first words spoken to them. There are children who listen a little longer before they answer. Children who first read the atmosphere in the room before letting their own words land. Children who weigh every glance, every tone, every pause.It may look like hesitation, but it is something else: a need to…
A Child's Journey During the Blitz: Inspiration for Steve McQueen's 'Blitz'
A Glimpse into the Past: A Child’s Journey During the Blitz In a bustling London train station, a young Black boy stands clutching a suitcase to his chest, his small hands wrapped tightly around the handle. Dressed in an oversized coat that swallows him whole, he sports a flat cap perched atop his head, his expression a mixture of determination and quiet resilience. This poignant moment captures…
In Avalon, we saw the change in a family’s dynamic through Elijah Woods young eyes. A few other times we watched the grown-ups world from a kids POV.
Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird. D: Robert Mulligan (1962). A six-year-old Alabama girl’s view of the year her father (Gregory Peck) defended a black man accused of raping a white woman. At one point she interrupts her father’s confrontation with a lynch mob and unknowingly diffuses the tense situation by asking the father of one of her classmates to say “hey” to him.
Linda Manz in Days of Heaven. D: Terence Malick (1978). A romantic tragedy in the 1916 Texas Panhandle is narrated by a teenager who looks even younger but sounds many decades older (“Sometimes I’d feel very old, like my whole life is over, like I’m not around no more.”) We don’t know what happened to her to drive the joy from her voice but it’s easy to think it started here.
Peter Billingsley in A Christmas Story. D: Bob Clark (1983). A child’s view of Christmas as a celebration of “the ecstasy of unbridled avarice” but the movie is as much a celebration of the post-depression emergence of the American middle-class. And as hapless dad Darren McGavin and harried mom Melinda Dillon look out on Christmas Day’s twilight while Billingsley’s Ralphie cradles his Red Ryder BB gun while sleeping the sleep of the just, it’s about embracing grace as you find it.
Sebastian Rice Edwards in Hope and Glory. D: John Boorman (1987). Britain during the Blitz seen through a lower-middle class London boy who sees the ruined buildings as a lovely playground (“time to smash things up”) and is in ecstasy when he finds out his school has been destroyed.
Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth. D: Guillermo Del Toro (2006). A child whose stepfather is a fascist military officer in 1944 Spain, is told by a faun that she is the reincarnation of a fairy-tale princess and needs to fulfill three tasks to be able to return to her kingdom. And thus Del Toro fuses a dark fairy tale with a darker reality which ends with either the triumph of good (if you’re a child and believe in fairy tales) or a tragic death (if you’re an adult who knows better).
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