A few weeks ago, my daughter, who is six, for the first time noticed that two women friends of ours were a couple. We’ve been friends with these ladies for some time, but I guess she saw things differently now because she found it odd. She told them so. To their face. With me standing there. While this was certainly an uncomfortable moment, my friend and I laughed it off with no hard feelings, yet I found myself sad as she walked away.
What saddened me is this was the point I knew was coming. I knew that eventually society would spill over… the ‘norms’, the stereotypes, the ‘oddities’.
Well, no time like the present, right? We sat down, my little girl and I and we had a talk. It’s a talk I hope she and her brother both engrain into her soul and what I will share today. It will become your character, this lesson, I told her.
Judge people based only upon WHO they are, for what KIND of person they are, for what kind of FRIEND they are, NEIGHBOR they are and based only upon their CHARACTER.
Easy enough, really and the rest simply doesn’t matter.
If my children learn nothing else after living in this home with us, I do hope this is a lesson that they carry with them forever.
It would make me proud.
~K
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