This Short Article Will Teach You The Importance Of Listening To Our Children – Parenthood

Discover the importance of listening to children. Do not hesitate to share these five minutes of audiovisual animation with the little one in the house. What captivates us most at the start of this short film are the eyes of the child protagonist. Her gaze is the shape and luminosity of a moon, full of dreams, full of hope and amazing things to teach her own family.

“The Moon” was released in 2011 to accompany the presentation of the animated film “The Brave”. Its creator, Enrico Casarosa, wanted to show how a “bambino” is able to demonstrate to his little family that he can be just as responsible as at work. In addition, children, thanks to their innocent but creative minds, also manage to teach us a lot. Incredible things.

“La Luna”, the short film about a family with a very special task

We are sure that you too, mum, dad, in your work, do not hesitate to guide your children to learn all that surrounds them through your own experience. We teach them to cross the street, to respect nature, to teach them how to plant a seed and how the Moon revolves around the Earth like the Sun.

Have you thought about how much our children can teach us? There are those who have the misconception that adults “already know it all,” and that a child’s brain is only ready to receive information, not to contribute. It is a mistake. Magic, plasticity, and that free and empowering thought of a child are things we should be working on every day.

“La Luna” is an exceptional short film where we are shown all these little details.

To learn the role of the family

The short film begins as a very special rite of passage. We know the bambino’s family, the father and grandfather who, like every day, take a leisurely trip by boat to a very specific place. On this occasion the little one of the house accompanies them, because finally, this moment when he must also learn the trade has arrived.

They even give him an old sailor’s cap, because he’s already part of the group. He is part of this small expedition of courageous men who have a very specific task every day: to release on the Moon all these stars which saturate the night.

Everything a child can teach us

At some point, dad and grandfather have a little problem with their task. They find a star so large that they are not sure how to remove it from the surface of the Moon. The brooms do not work, and they cannot do this task that they do from generation to generation.

At that moment, our precious bambino does not hesitate to climb on this star. It is as if the Little Prince was exploring his little planet, drawing ideas, drawing plans in his awake mind, free and full of possibilities, like any child.

The grandfather and the father do not believe that the little one can get them out of this problem. How to do ? These are the experts who have accomplished this serious task for decades and decades. However, the bambino surprises adults, it succeeds.

• Children often use this type of thinking that adults sometimes miss. It is lateral thinking, able to see reality in a less rigid way and with other perspectives so broad and creative that we can only obviously do ourselves.
• We adults have the experience, but we should not lose the magic of this inner child who is able to sense reality from a larger reality full of possibilities.
• Children have a lot to teach us. Because they are a new generation, because childhood is not a lack of skills but a lock full of possibilities that parents should prioritize by trusting and listening to them.

The importance of listening to our children

Life will always make its way through children to create a much better world. Provided that we are able to create the right environments and, above all, to respect and empower all their dreams, skills and natural capacities.

Each child is unique and exceptional. They all have their own moon in their eyes and hence the need to listen to them and trust them so that they can reach each of those stars that life hides from each of them. Don’t hesitate, enjoy this wonderful Pixar short film, “The Moon” with your children.