Are kids -- especially youngsters (2-5 years old) drawn to those whom they sense are "good"?
Yes, I know that the phrase "good" does little as a descriptive phrase but we all know what it means. Someone who is kind and caring, someone who isn't afraid to help others, someone who would never hurt another person. Are kids wired to detect this subtle trait even if the person whom they are drawn to does their best not to publicly display their "goodness"?
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I think that kids are little lightning rods for all kinds of things.
Maybe some of them, not mine. Mine definitely have some sort of weird psychic intuition, but don't seem to have any particular good-person detection meter.
I think kids see people for who/what they really are...is it a 6th sense? I don't know, all I know is..they can spot a phoney person a mile away..
I don't know about kids, because I don't have any....but my dogs sure have a 6th sense when it comes to accessing people.
My ethics were not formed in a church- and I was there alot! The Lone Ranger, Robin Hood, Zorro, and many like them formed my basis for right and wrong. You could do worse than those guys, Goodammer, Roy!
Children flock to me like I'm the freakin' pied piper. This leads me to believe the theory that they are drawn to "good" is a little off base. :)
Tough to say. Kids always stare at me and want to play with me wherever we go...elevators, trains, church, the street, etc. I brought this up to two of my friends. One girl said "Kids have good intuition and can see a good soul" which made me feel good. My other friend just said "Get over yourself. If kids could judge people so good they wouldn't get molested all the time." That kind of deflated me, but I had to admit he had a good point, crude as it was.
The answer is no. If they could sense good, there'd never be things like kidnappings...
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