Ron Says…

“And I’ve known kids in this society (in strange homes, it’s true) who grew up with a very great concept of their own personal worth and a feeling of great dignity. And I’ve run back—interested, very interested in this—on the time track and have found when dignity first starts to come in. And I have found dignity very much present in a two-months-old child, taking a person back down the time track.

“Somebody comes in and says, ‘Kitchy-kitchy-coo,’ and the kid says ‘Who the hell is this!’ But he can’t express it in words. So we take this child that’s normal, whose parents are worried about the child, the child gets a cold, has asthma, is sick. The parents say ‘We’ve done everything in the world that you could for this child.’ You echo to yourself, ‘And probably everything in the world that you could do to it.’ And we will carry this thing along. And what do we do with this child, you as an auditor? This child is sick.

“Well, the first thing you can try to do is to take the child by itself, no parents. Get them very definitely off the scene. You try to examine a child around his parents and you will find that he is falsely valuing everything. He is still a bit squirrelly and you find out that the bulk of children, if you talk to them on a rather dignified level, that you’ll find them talking to you on a rather dignified level. And you have entered the case right at that moment because this child is not spinning. The child is more in possession of self!

“Now, let’s just treat the child on an as adult a level as possible! Let’s not talk baby talk to it. And just talk to it on a very adult level and start giving the child Straightwire without saying this is Straightwire and without explaining what all this is about. And you’ll find out that you can go straight along with most cases and you can start blowing locks out very rapidly.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from lecture
“Child Dianetics—Part II”
8 November 1950

Ron Says…

“ A preclear will have discovered roles up and down the time track which interested people and he will be trying to occupy these roles in order to increase his own havingness. If you were to ask a preclear:

‘What were your parents interested in?’ he would eventually recover from the very things from which he is suffering.

“ Quite normally the whole career of a child is established by the things in which his mother is interested. And the child will try to be those things in which his mother was interested if his mother’s attention and interest in him has been slight. Here is the complete backbone of orientation-points and symbols. If the orientation-point is interested, the symbols are interesting. When one can no longer be an orientation-point, he of course becomes a symbol and tries to get interest from the orientation- point. The basic orientation-points in a family are the parents or grandparents and the symbol is the child.”

L. Ron Hubbard

The Creation of Human Ability, page 159.

Ron Says…

“ Now, you can do that with a little kid. If this little boy is running around hitting all the little girls in the neighborhood with his wagon, I can be absolutely certain that his parents run rotten 8-C. Just terrible 8-C. They might be very nice to him. Everybody say, ‘Well, they’re good parents.’ By all observances, they’re fine for him.

“ But this is the most peculiar thing in the world to witness. It is not whether they clothe him well. It is not whether they are nice or sweet or kind to him. These do not seem to have very much of an operating factor in establishing his goodness or badness, his smartness or his dullness or any other factor. It’s whether or not they run good, consistent control. ”

L. Ron Hubbard

17th American ACC Lecture of 12 March 1957, SURVIVAL, transcript page 123

Ron Says…

” I’ve taken it awfully easy on my kids on processing—awfully easy. I run an entirely different system. I’ve noticed some various behavior patterns in my life and usually use those.

” And that is to say, I always treat my children with courtesy, particularly in front of one another. … As a result, these kids are better and better friends with one another. Well, this is very fortuitous because, actually, their—most association is with one another. And they are very polite. They’re very polite to one another. They’re very polite to people quite ordinarily. If you’ve ever met them, they’re very interesting from this standpoint. Well, that is merely because one is polite to them, see? You’re just counting on the reaction.

” Now, this is pretty good—merely establishing patterns that they’re happy with, see? Now, that’s processing in itself. That’s processing through livingness and setting some sort of a pattern where they can get along with each other. Now, they are in an interesting state of mind with regard to processing. They will immediately show up if they have hurt themselves. Now, all kids come around and say, “Mama, I’ve cut my finger,” or something of this sort, and, “Kiss it and make it well.” Well, this manifestation is a lot different with these three kids. They’ll come in to myself at once, you see, and get an assist. And they’re perfectly happy with it, and the assists are working on them, by the way, faster and faster. So that sometimes it’s only a five- or six-command assist, don’t you see? And they’re perfectly happy then; they know that the score is there.

” We very carefully open up and close sessions and bridge commands, by the way—much more carefully than I do with one of you guys. All right. Now, raising children with the idea that something can be done about it, you see? Now, somewhere up along the line they ought to kind of start to get Clear. They see the things in the usual family environment that cause trouble, you see? They see these things being handled, so they get the idea that these things can be handled, don’t you see? You’re getting another viewpoint entirely. Now, that viewpoint, all by itself makes another breed of cat than a Clear. It makes another breed of cat than anything else. It has an effective attitude toward existence. Now, I think, just as I’ve recounted it, simply because I know these kids better than other people’s kids—but I know other Scientologist’s kids pretty well, too. They always usually ask for me if they come about someplace. They want to see Ron. And they want to come in and give me a smile or something of the sort. And I have a good look at them as they go along, you know? And I see them over long periods of time. I see them sporadically, you know? And most of them are doing just fine. But I think they have a different viewpoint than children have ever had before. I think, by the time they get to be about twelve—ten or twelve or something like this, you could just whomp into them and clear them up, probably, in a few hours. And that would be the end of that—providing you hadn’t made them allergic to processing by forcing processing on them, you see? And providing you had run good 8-C on them.

“Fascinating, the handling of kids, because you’re handling a tremendous amount of experience. And about the best thing you can possibly do is set up a model for them—a model of positiveness, a model of politeness. And you set up a good model for them, why, you’ve got it made.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture “E-Meter: Identification and Association: Question and Answer Period” delivered on 24 January 1958. This lecture may be found in 19th American ACC lectures.

Ron Says…

“But seldom have I ever seen a child taken for a child, very seldom. It doesn’t occur to people that the child is a live, living, thinking organism possessed initially of enormous self-determinism. It is the first goal of the normal adult in this society to break, utterly and forever, if possible, the self-determinism of the child.

“I’ve become convinced of this by listening to the cant that goes on around, ‘Oh now, elders know best. You must do this. Now, just mind.’ Now, I will admit that a child is noisy, and that a child breaks things, or a child, because of lack of data and coordination, may be a bit trying on those who have a blocked second dynamic. But I have found this to be the case: that any child who was engaged in breaking things, in being bad, was in a high state of revolt.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from lecture
“Processing Children”
15 July 1950

He was a young man, 21 years old. I could tell he was really trying to learn and he wanted to get better but the sadness and the weight of his troubles clouded present time so darkly that he had trouble seeing any goodness in his life. After the seminar he came up and thanked me for coming. I asked him what he had done that got him into trouble and he tearfully told me about pushing his wife. Now he was in jail. It wasn’t fair; he was sorry, he wanted to make something good out of his life. He didn’t want to be like his parents.

The last time he saw his dad the boy had gotten into trouble for letting the air out of his dad’s tires on the car. Seems like a bad thing for him to have done, but from the viewpoint of a kid it was a good way to stop his dad from going to the drug dealer for his next heroin fix. His dad made it to the dealer anyway and consequently also made it back into jail. His mom is in jail now too. The kid didn’t want to be like that and now here he is. Where is any hope for a decent life?

My passion is to help and to give people something that will help. I had the inmates doing examples and simple drills about fulfilling their obligations. They were into it; it was a noisy active course room where they were having fun learning something new. About ten minutes before I was done an Officer from the jail motioned from the back that he needed to say something. I let him interrupt.

He announced that the nurse was here to give the inmates their medications.

What is this? I couldn’t believe it. About half of the group of 60 men went out of the room like little kids getting an ice cream treat and stood in line while the nurse dispensed their medications. They want to believe that the meds will help them. While they were out I applauded the remaining men for taking care of themselves without medications. A few minutes later the others returned; quiet, calm, subdued, and numbed. How can they learn if they are drugged while studying? How can a person take charge of his life if he is in a drug haze? Where is help for a decent life?

There is hope. There is help. Something can be done about it.

Criminon is that hope. It offers the inmates a chance to sort out their life using the common sense guide laid out in a booklet by L. Ron Hubbard called THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. It contains powerful lessons that can help anyone improve their life.

My friend who runs the rehabilitation program in the jail met me after the seminar to get 100 applications to sign up the inmates for the course. There is hope. There is help. And there are many good people working to make things better.

Find out how easy it is to help by going to www.Criminon.org. Something can be done about it! You can help.

ML,

Carol Kingsley