This text is by Antroanya...
who said in her comment
what I wanted to say - but much clearer!
Thank you Antroanya!
Most people use to attach great importance
to take care of our small children.
We create the best circumstances around them,
gives them buondless love and respect.
It's quite right!
But.
I think that the last period in our Earthlife
have the SAME value that our first years.
Unfortunately in the reality it isn't so.
(At least in the west.)
Rudolf Steiner had those thoughts to.
So.
Time has come to take care
of our elderly people.
To build homes just like kindergarden. '
There would varmhearted,
loving, careful people work,
with respect and attention.
This was what I, Olga wrote a day earlier:
When I was little my mother worked at an older peoples home.
I guess I did not like what I saw, because I said to my Mom
that I never wanted her and Dad to live in an old peoples home...
Sometimes I am thinking of how these homes
could become good places for old folks in need of care.
My sons kindergarden (a Rudolf Steiner school)
is so well thought through in every aspect.
It is a good place with much respect.
I truly believe it is possible
to offer these elder ones
a good place to live
according to their needs.
Here is a little list of some things
that I would like to include in their care:
- children around (and animals)
- close to nature
- beautifully set tables and good food
- couples may share room
- personal that has TIME to sit down and talk
- familliar faces around at all time
- massage
please share with me your thoughts!
Or even better - maybe we could start an
"respect-for-old-people" movement together?
6 comments:
Most people use to attach great importance to take care of our small children. We create the best circumstances around them, gives them buondless love and respect. It's quite right!
But.
I think that the last period in our Earthlife have the SAME value that our first years.
Unfortunately in the reality it isn't so. (At least in the west.)
Rudolf Steiner had those thoughts to.
So.
Time has come to take care of our elderly people. To build homes just like kindergarden. There would varmhearted, loving, careful people work, with respect and attention.
Oh, I really agree with antroanya on this, Olga.
My mother used to make my sister and I go to senior citizen homes through our church when we were children. At first I didn't like it - what "old" looked like scared me then.
When I was a teenager, it dawned on me that the seniors were actually quite interesting, they had great stories to tell and they had the easy ability to make a young teenager feel welcome.
I'll admit that I haven't been to a senior citizen's center in years. You've reminded me of that, Olga.
Yes, I like all of Antroanya's suggestions.
I'm with you.
And I think that the kindergarten and the elders home can, and should, be connected and attached.
As a child I saw my grandparents once a year, if that. I had no other contact with people of that generation. Ruben sees his grandmother at least once a week and they consider each other best friends. Our society has so divided and separated the agegroups that there is no transfer of experience and wisdom, that both the child and the old person have. I do like your dreams Olga. I've just started reading my first steiner education book (not the man himself, far too dense!). keep this dialogue open please
you are so right Olga! and so touching and intelligent post!
A big hug!
I'm delighted to share my thoughts with you!!
We have homes here for elder people, where they often seem to be forgotten. We have hospitals here where the nurses are truely not able to care for the patients.We have children who seem to be forgotten by their parents. It's so much that makes you feel sad. Sad also, because most people think, that this social network has so many foul knots that you don't know where to start for changing something.
The government gave up lots of protection of society and now " the market is regulating itself" so to say...means, that somebody somewhere gains lot of money....
Some time ago I read a book about alternate (moneyless) forms of "payment" in a society: in Japan there are people, who work in hospitals and homes in their free time and get "caring-points" for the time they work there. And later, if they come into a situation, where they need care for themselves they can use the amount of "points" they have collected and somebody will care for them...without any money...
Pay it forward!! Great idea!!
When I think of becoming old I would like to live together with a variation of people, young and old...like I like it today!
I think everything has to do with love and respect.
Sometimes it seems to be difficult, that "young" people who lived on their own for a long time take care of their own parents. Sometimes their are such a lot of "family-patterns" which are hard to overcome.
But if everybody cares for somebody you will find somebody old to care for and your parents will find somebody for themself, too.
Olga, mmmhhh, enough for the first.
Perhaps I'll have more thoughts later!!
XXX
Uschi
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