hudson's second grade class is learning about matter: solids, liquids, gasses.
tonight's homework was to go through a magazine and clip out two examples of each that you would find at the grocery store.
he came over to me with an ad from hefty.
"mom, gingerbread men are NOT a holiday NEED. they are a holiday WANT."
um, yep. you're right dude.
this led to a conversation about what you NEED for the holidays: do you NEED to have a christmas tree to celebrate christmas? do we NEED to bake Jesus a birthday cake in order to celebrate his birthday? do we NEED to have presents on christmas morning for it to actually BE christmas?
(not gonna lie...that LAST question made him hesitate...LOL. i assured him that we WILL have gifts on christmas morning...but that even THAT is not a need, it's a WANT...as in we WANT to bless them with presents the way God blessed us with the best gift of all).
in any case, it was a great conversation and tonight i am thankful that even my seven year old is able to recognize how media tries to convince you of things that aren't true.
and THAT is a totally different lesson on MATTER than his teacher had in mind, but it was a good lesson nonetheless :)
1 comment:
good thoughts from a mom and her 7 year old. You get the most profound conversations from the smallest people in our lives. Wish we could capture these moments in a video and replay them but they tend to come at inopportune times and slip through our fingers before we know what happened. Cherish them, as I know you do, enjoy the ages you have now for you have the best of both worlds in your children. Teens can get up close and personal in a much different way than the simplistic, truthtelling young ones. Love the conversations I have with my 21,19 and 15 yr.olds but miss those innocent years.
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