A Methodology for Teaching the Culturally Particular African American Child
I will have a feeling of love and responsibility for all Black children, be they my own biological descendants or not. The extended family is a traditional way of life for us, therefore all Afrikan adults are potentially correct Black parents.
- I will teach what is right and what is wrong.
- I will respect my children and will demand respect from them.
- I will strive to produce in the home harmony, stability and an atmosphere of trust and love. I will provide opportunities for learning and will instill a sense of pride by teaching our past and present history.
- I will have control and power in the home, being that the home is the smallest example of a Nation -- and if the home is not together you cannot deal with outside forces.
- I will find the best possible educational institutions for my children and I will participate in some way in the institution.
- I will seek to establish and perpetuate those moral attitudes and values which will add to my children's personalities and characters; virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherliness, kindness and charity.
- I will develop a deep inner love that flows over and around the Black child to form a shield of protection, guidance, wisdom and strength.
- I will assume the responsibility for cultivating the development of Black youth. This cultivation process occurs mentally (through skill development); physically (through the sharing of food, clothing and shelter); emotionally (through the commitment to the national development of Black people); and spiritually (through the living out of a superior value system).
- I will be about collaborating with others like myself, creating an atmosphere whereby Black children can grow and develop their potential in effective and meaningful ways.
- I will be responsible for strengthening the positive qualities of the child and for correcting negative characteristics. I will maintain and nurture positive stability in the Black family.
- I will be a model of the intellectual, emotional and moral discipline necessary to the child's understanding of, relationship to, and responsibility for the total Black experience -- past, present and future.
- I will have as my goal harmony within and freedom without; with confidence in the knowledge that the ultimate in freedom is service to mankind. My whole person and lifestyle will transmit these same values to the young.
- I will help every Black child to develop the skills to survive. I will teach that the highest good in life is to serve Black people, helping all Black people in the struggle to survive.
- I will teach what is right and what is wrong.
- I will respect my children and will demand respect from them.
- I will strive to produce in the home harmony, stability and an atmosphere of trust and love. I will provide opportunities for learning and will instill a sense of pride by teaching our past and present history.
- I will have control and power in the home, being that the home is the smallest example of a Nation -- and if the home is not together you cannot deal with outside forces.
- I will find the best possible educational institutions for my children and I will participate in some way in the institution.
- I will seek to establish and perpetuate those moral attitudes and values which will add to my children's personalities and characters; virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherliness, kindness and charity.
- I will develop a deep inner love that flows over and around the Black child to form a shield of protection, guidance, wisdom and strength.
- I will assume the responsibility for cultivating the development of Black youth. This cultivation process occurs mentally (through skill development); physically (through the sharing of food, clothing and shelter); emotionally (through the commitment to the national development of Black people); and spiritually (through the living out of a superior value system).
- I will be about collaborating with others like myself, creating an atmosphere whereby Black children can grow and develop their potential in effective and meaningful ways.
- I will be responsible for strengthening the positive qualities of the child and for correcting negative characteristics. I will maintain and nurture positive stability in the Black family.
- I will be a model of the intellectual, emotional and moral discipline necessary to the child's understanding of, relationship to, and responsibility for the total Black experience -- past, present and future.
- I will have as my goal harmony within and freedom without; with confidence in the knowledge that the ultimate in freedom is service to mankind. My whole person and lifestyle will transmit these same values to the young.
- I will help every Black child to develop the skills to survive. I will teach that the highest good in life is to serve Black people, helping all Black people in the struggle to survive.
American children are THE SAME, ALL children Worldwide need Development
If you might CHANGE the colorIdentification in your POST it might be RELEVANT in 2013.
------change 'black' to American or at LEAST African American
------this is BIA, a wwebsite for African American Families............
As a Professional Educator of Americans for nearly 50 YEARS with GREAT growth and progress for all Americans-------I am TOTALLY Against any Racist colorIdentification.
---colorIdentification is of the Racist Ignorance of the Past, 2013 is not 1492/1860/1950.
Definition of BLACK:
In the Western World today, it is the color most commonly associated with mourning, the end, secrets, magic, power, violence, evil, and elegance.
Black is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white and often represents darkness in contrast with light.
Black was one of the first colors used by artists in neolithic cave paintings. In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently associated with death, evil, witches and magic.
To LABEL any American CHILD with this 'blackMESS'- is antiLEARNING, antiProgress for America