Baby Ninja sworn to protect all that is honest and creative.

A point made in class has inspired my Baby Ninja. We discussed how kindergarten students in comparison to sixth graders still demonstrate vitality for life, an endless pool of energy, and a free flow of expressive emotion opposed to the much more subdued, cool attitude of an average middle schooler. The kindergarten student has yet to be affected by the pressure of social conformity and it results in an honest and free reign of creativity.

This thought is particularly disturbing to me. It triggered a nostalgic quest of my own, through the depths of my childhood memory to find when, where and who stole my kindergarten essence. I’m disappointed to report back that it was a combination of many of the people that I hold in high respect. Family, Friends, and school teachers evaporate our creative juices at a very young age.

As young toddlers we fight the conformity, the restrictions and we are all……baby ninjas. As young children we are known to defy our parents and listen only to our inner artist by creating crayola masterpieces using our bedroom walls as our canvas or creating grand sculptures from mounds of toilet paper. As a baby ninja we are responsible to fight against all the social norms and express ourselves anywhere, anyhow, and anyway we can. However, after time and continuous verbal reprimand, pressures to conform to society eventually defeat our baby ninja and our kindergarten essence is slay. In order to restore our creative spirits we must invest in our baby ninjas and allow them to emerge once again. We must relearn free expression of thought and abandon our current social restraints, fears and inadequacies or we as creative students will never reach our full potential.