Here's the thing about being a parent: the kids are watching you and learning. Yes, we all know that children learn to speak and socialize and use a fork by observing the parental bigjobs (Terry Pratchett speak makes me happy!). But the little ones are learning a helluva lot more than that from us.
Sometimes this is beautifully enlightening, like when your child bends down to tenderly look a crying child in the face and ask if they are OK, and you recognize the gesture as your own.
All too often the realization that you are being learned from is horrifying, like when your child curses in public, or expresses insecurity about having big feet, or has an overwhelmed with schoolwork freak-out in which you hear your own voice coming out of her mouth.
Recently, my roomate H-bomb said something that made me recognize the trickledown of my personal desiire for LESS. He was doing a word problem for math homework, one designed to make the student use simple division. He read it out loud to me. "Adrienne has 150 CDs," the question began. Then, in sublime parenthetical judgement, he added "which is ridiculous" before continuing, "and she wants to store equal numbers of CDs in two containers. How many go in each?" He thought for a moment and then summized, "That would be 75 CDs each. Which is still too many."
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3 comments:
Good on H-bomb!
Where does he stand on 150 CDs worth of music on one beloved iPhone? I'm sure that's totally in keeping with your wise parenting and with biblical scholarship. ;)
Yep, you're right. I can actually hear YOU saying that. He's not only cute, but funny. A winning combination.
that is so funny! and i've actually witnessed that kind, caring concern of H's expressed to my own kid. thanks for helping make the world a more compassionate one, D!
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