Lately I have noticed that the little woman is getting a whole set of opinions. Like her pronouncement to her brother about girls slapping boys they don't like. I'm flabbergasted at where some of them come from. There is the whole nature versus nurture that goes on in how we become the people we do. Each of us have different experiences that mold how we think.
I can do a quick comparison of my brother and myself. He is conservative and I'm liberal. We pretty much had the same upbringing, but we did not have all duplicate experiences.
Makes me wonder who the littles will turn out to be. Naturally I would hope they think more like me, but I'm smart enough to know they may not.
Realizing that I tend to be quiet in my opinions. I don't argue with people. I pretty much believe that I cannot change anyone's opinion. So I live my life and do my thing. I'm not vocal and maybe that is a mistake. How do the littles know what I think if I don't tell them? Will their life experiences match mine? No, but they have brains and I want them to use them.
I've talked about how we need to expand our world. One of the reasons is for exposure for them. So they can see that all people are people regardless of color, sex, orientation, age, etc. We have a fear of the unknown and that can impact our beliefs about others.
I expose the littles to a lot of activities. They are busy busy children, but I think I am lacking in exposing them to people. So maybe this will be the year we get out of my skin and try harder to expand our world in the way of people. Maybe this is the year I start talking to them more about how I view my world. And maybe one day one of them will grow up to impact the world in a way that makes it a better place. Their being impacts the world, but maybe something they do or say or think and maybe they won't have the fears that I have.
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