Saturday, August 20, 2005
Tonight Bryn matter-of-factly informed us just why she insisted on repeatedly twirling in place until she fell down:This is very exciting for me. Never let it be said that five year olds aren't easily amused.
10:08:00 PM
Friday, August 19, 2005
As parents of girls, we've spent a lot of time fighting off the pervasive and insidious "generic he". No, we tell relatives, it really does matter whether the books you found for them all have male main characters. No, we tell caregivers, all squirrels are not male.
To understand why this is so important to us, spend a few minutes surfing via the regender.com translation service.
10:08:00 PM
Thursday, August 04, 2005
A letter to the future...
Car conversations with the kids can be about nearly anything. In retrospect, you can usually figure out where they started, but you can't always anticipate where they'll end up.
For instance, the kids are totally into series books these days. If one book with a given set of characters is great, they wind up rapidly steaming through as many books in that series as they can. Pippi, Eloise, Junie B. Jones, Sarah Plain & Tall ... the list of lists goes on and on. Their regular sitter, picking up on this, has been bringing over books from an adventure series, and this past weekend's crop evidently included a plot line which featured mummies, tomb robbers, and the queen of the ghosts.
Thus, this morning I got asked what each of those terms meant, a conversation which all-too-rapidly morphed into questions about:- burial customs in different cultures,
- who decides where someone's buried,
- what a soul is,
- whether everyone believes in heaven,
- etc.
The kids were especially interested to learn that some people make arrangements during their lives for how they want their deaths handled, while others leave that to their families to decide.
Wow. There's nothing like sitting at a red light hearing your daughters calmly discuss such sad stuff so quietly and earnestly. Hard as it was to hear -- they've just turned 5 -- I couldn't be prouder of them.
Love, Daddy
PS: For the record, both kids want to be buried in the ground (not in tombs), and they've each promised the other to make sure their wishes are carried out.
PPS: The kids, having got all the answers they wanted, left the car totally focused on applying sunscreen so they could start playing with their friends.
PPPS: I don't think I could have handled a much longer drive, though.
4:28:00 PM
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