i find it difficult to gracefully and honestly navigate body dialogue with children. eloise ate enough for a small horse one day when we were on vacation and her tummy was enormous. she ran out onto the porch where we were sitting with friends and said, "look! i think i got fat!". no judgement, just an observation. then she started telling a couple of our heavier friends about how fat they are. no judgement, just observations, but how do you explain to a 5 year old the contradictory ideas of "bodies come in all shapes and sizes.... but some people don't want to be called fat [or thin]".
We are definitely trying to raise our kids with the idea that fat and thin are merely descriptors and not qualitative judgment words, that health is not implied with either term, etc. I suspect that loving words have been spoken about Astrid's chub, though I mostly like to use the same words for both 'look at that healthy belly!' etc.
Geez. This kind of thing makes me wonder about the propriety of teaching the pentacles to children - how much suffering would they avoid? But then, how much learning would they miss? Just don't know. Socialization of children is the beginning of the Fall, it seems, and perhaps as Adults, we just have to witness and be there when it is time to administer some kind of salvation when they're suitably prepared.
On the flip side perhaps if we parents and society as a whole had a better, healthier grip on the pentacle points our kids could avoid much of the damage we still work to undo!
Right now Bennett seems like a bottomless pit of attention and need. If Astrid is doing something, getting any attention or praise then he must do it too. Ay yi yi.
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He's going to love me LOL
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i find it difficult to gracefully and honestly navigate body dialogue with children. eloise ate enough for a small horse one day when we were on vacation and her tummy was enormous. she ran out onto the porch where we were sitting with friends and said, "look! i think i got fat!". no judgement, just an observation. then she started telling a couple of our heavier friends about how fat they are. no judgement, just observations, but how do you explain to a 5 year old the contradictory ideas of "bodies come in all shapes and sizes.... but some people don't want to be called fat [or thin]".
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Right now Bennett seems like a bottomless pit of attention and need. If Astrid is doing something, getting any attention or praise then he must do it too. Ay yi yi.
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