Anyo's Picture Introduction: The powerful mind (brain) of a child Most of us know that there is something unique about a child's (less than 12yrs old) ability to listen, learn and accurately store new information in their subconscious mind. The younger the child, (3yrs old vs. 12yrs old) the more unique! For the sake of simplicity, let me refer to this subconscious mind of a child as the "Warehouse". The powerful brain of a child operates like a brand new camera. It captures and stores with maximum precision, whatever information it is given because it does not have a choice. Did you know that scientific research on child mental development not only show that an infant learns up to ten words per day, but that they can also learn up to four different languages accent-free by the time they reach three-four years old, depending on exposure. The brain of infant receives information of how adults arrange words and it stores it in the warehouse in that order like a perfect camera snapshot! But they are unable to utter meaningful words because their tongue muscle is not development strong enough to be maneuvered. But the information that the underdeveloped brain of child captures because it does not have a choice can also be very easily replaced if not constantly `charged'. Do you know a child that came to America and within one year spoke fluent English but forgot the African language completely? Could this be the reason children learn and lose languages faster than adults? It is reasonable to conclude that this vulnerable but very powerful picture-perfect-camera-like brain mechanism of a child is the cause for adults to be cautious of what they expose a child's mind to. It is also reasonable to conclude that the `no-choice' status of a child's brain is designed by nature right from the mother's womb. Otherwise, a child would not be able to speak, let alone just one, but up to four different languages fluent and accent-free when they have only been in this world for less than three years, most of which was spent sleeping!!!!!!!! The rebellious powerful mind (brain) of a teenager Like a camera, a teenager's (13-19 years old) brain/mind temporarily stalls and stops taking pictures with maximum precision because it is growing old". The teenage developmental stage is a period where information stored in the warehouse is temporarily replaced by selected information because their brain fully developed, thus has a choice. Unlike the vulnerable mind of a child, the teenager's mind can filter and reject and select what sort of information it stores in the warehouse. A teenager's brain can say "No!" and it often comes out inform of rebellion. In America, individual who commit crime but are less than 18 years old, are categorized as "Juvenile" and are given special consideration. Their teenage crime is not used against them when they become adults. It is reasonable to conclude that America understands that the filter-select-reject brain mechanism of a teenager is difficult to override because it is prescribed by nature right from the mother's womb. This makes sense because the teenage years are for sexual activity (Reproduction). It is also reasonable to conclude that religion, cultures and laws try to control the natural reproductive powerful mindset of a teenager. The calm powerful mind (brain) of an adult The adult (19years and older) brain takes a backseat and loses its ability to store new information in the subconscious mind. Are you aware of an adult who, with equal amount of exposure, would learn and speak not only fluent, but also accent-free, new languages within three years? The calm mind of an adult is designed not to receive new information but to retrieve old information from the warehouse. Like an album full of old pictures captured with our once upon a time brand new camera, the adult mind keep going back to the warehouse to retrieve old information. This information that is retrieved from the warehouse will dictate a person's character and behavior. In America, when adults commit crime, the court system tends to focus on their childhood. The courts try to understand what information they are retrieving from the warehouse by understanding what their mind was exposed to as a child. Most adult criminals with a proven abusive childhood history often get pardoned and receive a much lesser sentence plus rehabilitation through Psychologists, who are experts on how the human mind operates to control our behavior. Psychologists attempts to reorganize and remove the undesirable information that is stored in the powerful mind of a child, but now it is deeply embedded, and being retrieved by the adult. Can Psychologists defy nature as prescribed right from the mother's womb? Why are most of these individuals repeat offenders? Why do Ugandan adults who were born and raised in Uganda who now live in America like their Millet Kwon or Matoke much more than American hamburgers? Anyo's Autobiography I was born in 1973 in Gulu, Northern Uganda, in East Africa. When I was a ten year old girl, I was scripted by culture and tradition and I knew most of my primary responsibilities as a wife. My culturally gender assigned responsibilities were to cook for, respect, obey, love and nurture my husband. I did not know how mothers got their babies but I knew that I have to get married first before I get my own baby. I also knew that words such as malaya, whore and slut were used to taunt, belittle, degrade, humiliate, ostracize and stigmatize women who deviate from strict biblical and cultural social/sexual norms. It is reasonable to conclude that culture coined these terms to mold my mind and control my behavior to protect a man's mysterious interest. The story of one rib taken from Adam to create Eve was real in my child's mind. Many times I heard the priest talk about how a woman is a man's helper. But now that I am older and wiser, I realize that this does not make sense. A man should be a woman's helper because she does most of the labor intensive child care everyday! I should have asked the priest to be specific: "Help him with what?" It was inconceivable to hear us, ten year old boys and girls in the playground talk about husbands, who beat, rape, abandon their wives and children and kill wives who want to leave them. We never knew any word that culture coined to taunt, belittle, degrade, humiliate, ostracize and stigmatize men who deviate from strict biblical and cultural sexual norms. Why didn't culture coin terms to control men/husbands behavior? I feel very lucky because I found out before getting married, that according to the same culture "A husband who does not beat his wife is not a real man". Unfortunately, most of my loving, caring, innocent unsuspecting playground mates walked right into an invisible trap they did not know existed, and are now dangerously cornered by "Until death do us part." Very sad! It is important to note that a learnt behavior, which I define as behavior which is a result of information `fed' into the vulnerable underdeveloped brain of a child, can best be practiced in the adult years, if the information in the warehouse and the environment are in agreement. A behavior that is not learnt, which I define as behavior not triggered by information `fed' into the vulnerable underdeveloped brain of a child, for example, the love in women's heart for their children, is not affected by change of environment. To further understand the concept of Anyo's autobiography at a Scholarly (PhD) level, please Google the much debated theory of "Nature versus Nurture." Conclusion Is there a conspiracy between culture/religion and men against women's powerful mind? 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