I have a question about many of the lessons "that come with age". How can they be made available to the young?

As other posters have said, the lessons that come with age are available to the young. The problem isn't that the lessons are not available. It also isn't a "natural process" that some people just can not learn from the mistakes of others. I know a kid, now 27 and a medical student, who is one of the wisest people I've ever met. He has been wise since he was a very young person. He was always an astute observer and listener, and was willing and able to sort through the information presented to him and pick out the lessons best learned. Anyone has that option, but not all young people, nor all old people for that matter, have the patience or self-control to learn from the world indirectly. Some of us are so hard headed that we have to burn our own hand to know to stay away from the hot burner.

I was a school teacher for 20 years. After a two year hiatus to deal with illness in the family, I'm going to look for work again. My focus will be to encourage those in grades 7 to 12 to learn from literature lessons that will help them "learn the lessons that come with age" without personally having to make all the mistakes that teach those lessons.

In my experiences with young people one must get their undivided attention and this is the difficult part. At 17 I was well aware that I knew everything. The young'ins are no different today than yesterday with the exception they are bombarded by a relentless media hype portraying a lifestyle of the rich and famouse as being normal. Growing up on "Leave it to Beaver" and "The Brady bunch" one see's a different value system at work. For those whom wish to learn lessons from the more mature they need to be open about it; seeking common ground is a good start, sports and coaching fit the bill in some cases. The lessons of age are available, one can lead the horse to water, but....

Lessons may be taught at the age of reason by using lateral thinking techniques. Only understanding comes with a mature age.

Read Ed DeBono's books on Lateral Thinking, Parallel Thinking, Six Thinking Hats, Six Thinking Shoes, and Creativity.

Even wisdom is misconceived as a mature adult thinking process. Children are capable of wisdom and creatvity too.

Life experiences is a natural process.

Those lessons are only something that comes with experience. You can tell others about your experiences, or lessons you've learned, but another person, young or old, cannot truly understand until they've been through it themselves. I think it is wise for people to try to pass along their knowledge to others, because someone else may be able to relate one of their experiences to it, and gain a new perspective.

I think knowledge like this can be passed on in a multitude of ways: through writing, speaking, acting, art, music, any way that makes sense to you.

it's called hiring a trainer/riding instructor.

you are paying for that person's time and quality of knowledge.

that said...

just because you find someone who's been around horses for years doesn't automatically mean you're getting the best.

some older and old people (just like young people) are stubborn and keep doing the same stupid things and getting bad results and passing these ideas on to the ignorant.

You can be young and be smart and learn for yourself from a variety of people...young and old....and get good knowledge for yourself.

You can be someone who's just started to be around horses, and you can get better results than someone who's been around them for years.

Age does not make you an expert.

Quality is worth more than quantity.

I know people who just started to train horses who are better than people who've been at it for 30 years!

So....

is there a short cut?

yeah, find the right instructor/trainer.

I consider that backwards........ the young are closer to source than the old. We (society in general) have done nothing but place our own ideologies/rules upon them based on false and or miss-leading doctrines and the people who "teach them". Our lesson is in them. Your probably just at an age where you want to get back to that initial child like freedom or closeness to source.

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Lessons that come with age...How can they be made available to the young?

They already are available to the young, yet their generally masqueraded in the form of . . .

...Fables and fairytale books that are read to them.

...Adventure and moral books.

...Movies.

...Positive role models of elders.

Other lessons that "come with age" such as when the youngers see you cry, hurt, worried, etc.

Life events can be gently enlightened to the children through observation and lessons of compassion, learning how to be strong through "challanges", seeing that's it okay to cry, them observing how you are sustain wisdom and strength in managing through "challanges".

All this is done with full awareness and being mindful, thoughtful of young ones in your presence.

Whether they are children, young adults or more "mature" persons...the only "shortcutting" I can see is if the individual has loving and emotionally healthy person(s) throughout their life.

A reminder though . . .Some people experience very "challenging" life in their younger years yet many of them still evolve into being very moral, loving, optimistic, productive and happy beings.

To the younger ones. . .they are precious.

Hold them close, read to them, value them with tender and wise heart while they're in your care.

And as we all grow . . .still hold close, read to each other, value with tender and wise hearts.

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I've come to find that most of the our peers aren't really that into thinking. Perhaps, if we all began to think more, just about anything in general, we might gain some of these said "lessons"

The difference between age & youth is.. is youth acts on less information than age, hence youth seems more zestful & makes more mistakes where age tends to gather more information & seems to respond slower to situations & make less mistakes, bottom line....

I would rather be considered an old fa rt than a young di ckhead.

They are available to the young. The young are just too ignorant to listen.