It is very fun, while revealing how they see the world, listen to definitions of the little ones. This is what Javier Naranjo, author of the book has done for ten years 'House of the stars: the universe told by children', in which almost 500 definitions of children full of poetry and wisdom are collected.
It is a very particular dictionary that leaves us perplexed by its logic, with definitions such as: "Adult: Person who in everything that speaks, first she "(Andrés Felipe Bedoya, 8 years old) or "church: Where one is going to forgive God "(Natalia Bueno, 7 years old).
Naranjo, poet and workshop worker, worked as a teacher in rural schools in Colombia and had the opportunity to be hand in hand with the children. He has not wanted to change anything of his definitions, more than spelling mistakes, since the essence of each definition also lies in the way of explaining it.
There are definitions that move like that of tranquility by Blanca Yuli Henao, 10 years old: "For example, the father tells him that he is going to hit him and then tells him that he no longer".
AdvertisingIn 'House of the stars: the universe told by children' We can find more words explained by children like:
- Old man: He is a man who keeps sitting all day (Maryluz Arbeláez, 9 years old)
- Water: Transparency that can be taken (Tatiana Ramírez, 7 years old)
- White: White is a color that does not paint (Jonathan Ramírez, 11 years old)
- Farmer: A farmer has no house, no money. Only his children (Luis Alberto Ortiz, 8 years old)
- Heaven: Where the day comes (Duván Arnulfo Arango, 8 years old)
- Colombia: It's a football game (Diego Giraldo, 8 years old)
- Money: Thing of interest for others with which they become friends and not having this, makes enemies (Ana María Noreña, 12 years old)
- God: It's love with long hair and powers (Ana Milena Hurtado, 5 years old)
- Envy: Throw stones at friends (Alejandro Tobón, 7 years old)
- Moon: It gives us the night (Leidy Johanna García, 8 years old)
- Mother: Mother understands and then goes to sleep (Juan Alzate, 6 years old)
- Darkness: It's like the freshness of the night (Ana Cristina Henao, 8 years old)
- Peace: When you forgive yourself (Juan Camilo Hurtado, 8 years old)
- Loneliness: Sadness that gives one sometimes (Iván Darío López, 10 years old)
- Weather: Something that happens to remember (Jorge Armando, 8 years old)
- Universe: House of the stars (Carlos Gómez, 12 years old)
- Violence: Bad part of peace (Sara Martínez, 7 years old)
Of course, we have to listen more to children, because their way of understanding the world helps adults to realize how much we can learn from them.
