The wisdom of a child
by adustyframe ~ July 21st, 2008Chel emailed me to share her children’s conversation she overheard the other day.
Hi. I never hear anyone talk about prison or jail any more without thinking of you. You, and your blog, have changed some of my general perceptions of prisons. Now, we were never those people who told their kids that if they did something bad, they’d go to jail. I think that’s horrible.
We’re more of a ‘I’ll take your video game away’ sort of a parenting family. But the kids see things on tv about jail and prison, so I know they both have a general awareness.
Just a few moments ago, my son was helping my daughter build something with her blocks & apparently she didn’t leave any ways out. He said it was a jail, a bad place.
She said, it is a bad place, but when people are done there,they can go out and do good things.
Now, where she got that, I have no idea. But I thought of you and Lee and about how he’s out and doing good things.
Thank you, Chel for sharing that with me.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
That is lovely. Children are wonderful aren’t they? Sometimes they can put things so simply in a way that we cannot- they can see and express what we find it hard too.
Yes:) They are awesome.