Toni Ahvenainen
Natural wisdom
Day 27 of 365
I try to add Aura to my photo blog pictures as often as I can, because it makes them more valuable to me. This time I cropped my picture purposely this way so that I could use edges of that soda pop fridge to my excuse to add this picture to 'Season of Blackness', plus it makes it a nice 'frame within frames' picture. I wish I could use Aura more often, but she has a bedtime when darkness descends and therefore I often have settle for her sleeping cat.
We haven't give Aura much products that contain added sugar (she's now 21 months). Candies, ice-cream and soda pop are a no go. I know this is very controversial topic when it comes to parenthood and while different people choose different approaches, no one knows how things turn out because children are self-acting humans and not robots which we could program. And I know this is a lost fight in the end, but we think/believe/imagine (choose appropriate word) that getting raised up with certain kind 'normal food' builds a foundation for healthy eating habits. Then when she gets older she will of course learn to eat candies as well, but when it happens she is already used to certain kind of eating habits and candies doesn't substitute something else in her mind, which might happen if we would let her eat those right from the beginning. Anyway, the point is that Aura doesn't yet know any of these things, but she is getting more and more interested about them. In café where we often go, she admires the colorful labels and many of these products are, in fact, targeted to children. This makes me think that deep down somewhere in her mind she already knows how to sort out children and adult culture from each other. There's some overlap of course, but it is still interesting to watch how she unconsciously pays attention only to things which she has some sort of possibility to enjoy and understand. It reminds me of old philosophical thesis, which claims that mankind creates only those problems which it has possibility to solve by itself. Natural wisdom of children and human kind, I guess. Which includes candies too.
Ps. Still considering different options regarding how to change course of my photo blog to something more easily to update.
Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
Natural wisdom
Day 27 of 365
I try to add Aura to my photo blog pictures as often as I can, because it makes them more valuable to me. This time I cropped my picture purposely this way so that I could use edges of that soda pop fridge to my excuse to add this picture to 'Season of Blackness', plus it makes it a nice 'frame within frames' picture. I wish I could use Aura more often, but she has a bedtime when darkness descends and therefore I often have settle for her sleeping cat.
We haven't give Aura much products that contain added sugar (she's now 21 months). Candies, ice-cream and soda pop are a no go. I know this is very controversial topic when it comes to parenthood and while different people choose different approaches, no one knows how things turn out because children are self-acting humans and not robots which we could program. And I know this is a lost fight in the end, but we think/believe/imagine (choose appropriate word) that getting raised up with certain kind 'normal food' builds a foundation for healthy eating habits. Then when she gets older she will of course learn to eat candies as well, but when it happens she is already used to certain kind of eating habits and candies doesn't substitute something else in her mind, which might happen if we would let her eat those right from the beginning. Anyway, the point is that Aura doesn't yet know any of these things, but she is getting more and more interested about them. In café where we often go, she admires the colorful labels and many of these products are, in fact, targeted to children. This makes me think that deep down somewhere in her mind she already knows how to sort out children and adult culture from each other. There's some overlap of course, but it is still interesting to watch how she unconsciously pays attention only to things which she has some sort of possibility to enjoy and understand. It reminds me of old philosophical thesis, which claims that mankind creates only those problems which it has possibility to solve by itself. Natural wisdom of children and human kind, I guess. Which includes candies too.
Ps. Still considering different options regarding how to change course of my photo blog to something more easily to update.
Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com