Making Home: Thoughts on Sheltering#links
Wow! What a great post! The comments are great, too. I so struggle with having double knots in my apron strings! I want John and Sarah to enjoy the innocence of youth for as long as possible. But, I also want them to be street wise. It is a tough balance, but I think at least at the ages of 5 and 2 there are less gray areas.
Today at our community beach there were some "rough" boys there. They were probably ~ 6 and 9 years old, and they were wrestling in the water, calling each other names. Their parents were watching them, but were not correcting the name calling. John initiated conversation with them and wanted to be noticed by them.
John seems to gravitate towards older boys, especially ones who are boisterous. I think it is great that John is so gregarious. However, how would we handle it if John really wanted to spend lots of time with a rowdy neighbor? Aargg. I am not quite ready for this growing up thing...
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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