This Short Will Teach You The Value Of Letting Children Choose Their Path

“The Moon” is a delicious Disney Pixar short that will introduce you to the most charming and magical boy in the factory. His eyes instantly dazzle, full of that avid curiosity that already has its own voice, that shines with the brightness of those stars that fall from time to time from the sky.

Because believe it or not, this short is about the same thing: stars that fall, and that must be withdrawn every day in a very special task that the family of our protagonist fulfills. They are street sweepers, and their work has passed from generation to generation until the time came for our protagonist.

If you have children, if your life is related to teaching and you have more than one child every day pending your words, and waiting for the knowledge that you can transmit, do not hesitate to make him a participant in this short.

And even more, never forget that they too have a lot to teach us, because even though we were children once, we already wear so many layers over our skin, eyes and hearts that we have lost part of that spontaneity of yesteryear.

Part of that wisdom that only clean looks and curious hearts have to conquer the world again just as we once did.

The “bambino” with two moons in his eyes

Do not miss any details of these three characters. Each movement, gesture and expression contains a careful liturgy where everything acquires its own meanings. We are before the initiation of a child to that work that his father and grandfather carry out every day.

In the short we see our “bambino” taken in a boat with his father and grandfather to this stage of absolute magic. And like any self-respecting rite of passage when one reaches age, the child also receives his star-sweeper cap, like the one worn by his relatives. You are ready to learn the trade .

Now, but … what happens? That the task of sweeping those stars that every day saturate the Moon, however simple it may seem, from time to time brings its complications. And indeed, there comes a point when everyday life smoothes out ingenuity, when custom makes grandfather and father lose their innocence.

It is precisely at this point that the bambino, when this child with the eyes of the Moon, moves forward with determination and courage solving a situation that the older generations would never have done in this way.

• The child then stands as a true “Little Prince”. Apply that kind of lateral thinking or creative reasoning that only an awake and innocent child is capable of developing.

• He moves away from parental schemes to give his ingenuity verve, representing that new generation that is capable of choosing its path, that does not reject family help but that proves to be just as capable.

• While the adults argue, the bambino acts. Because it is they, the children, who have the ability to move away from formalities, from the predictable, from accepted habits to break schemes. To advance.

The value of children choosing their path

This short represents, as we have pointed out to you, the value of letting children choose their path, of having a voice, and showing us how much we can learn from them if we allow it. If we are able to open ourselves to them as well. Educating implies carrying out a great act of responsibility, but it must be a quiet responsibility where there are no fears or prejudices:

• Children do not need to be controlled in their every step or even less overprotected.
• Our children demand our attention, that we offer them affection and above all that security with which they can explore the world feeling loved. Having enough confidence to advance in safety and freedom.

Sooner or later our children will have the right to choose their path, and it does not have to be the one we have planned for them. And even if it is, although as the bambino in this short is pleased by the wonderful work that his family does, he does not have to do it in the same way. Because only your awakened heart and curious eyes will tell you what to do when “such great things” fall from the sky …

Enjoy the short, and do not forget to attend the wonderful soundtrack by Michael Giachinno, it will leave you breathless and with emotion in your eyes.