Today my daughter got off the bus with a new kind of story.
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I don’t have any daughters but this was such a good reminder for me! Thank you for sharing your sweet girls story!
Great post…. As inclusive and tolerant as our society has become, there are still those little vestiges of stereotyping left in all of us. And we don’t even know it or recognize it till one of our kids (or someone else’s kids) speaks it out. Just yesterday, a member of my family posted that she’d like to marry a man of a certain ethnic background so he could cook that style food for her all the time. Her friend made a terrible, snide, stereotyped comment about the other benefits of marrying that ethnicity and until I pointed out to my son how limiting and “categorizing” it was, he thought it was kinda funny. EVEN tho he absolutely hates the stereotypes his friends seem to believe to be true about his “Asian” sister…..
Oh, and the “so what did you do?” is such a useful tool in parenting! I have found so often that it helps me take a breath and NOT rush forward in my own strength or “street smarts,” but to stop for a moment and ask for HIS wisdom. Plus, on a much lighter note, I have often (too often?!) found that IT really wasn’t at all what I thought it was gonna be and it’s saved me a ton of embarrassing moments. And NOT just with my kids!
I don’t have any daughters but this was such a good reminder for me! Thank you for sharing your sweet girls story!
Great post…. As inclusive and tolerant as our society has become, there are still those little vestiges of stereotyping left in all of us. And we don’t even know it or recognize it till one of our kids (or someone else’s kids) speaks it out. Just yesterday, a member of my family posted that she’d like to marry a man of a certain ethnic background so he could cook that style food for her all the time. Her friend made a terrible, snide, stereotyped comment about the other benefits of marrying that ethnicity and until I pointed out to my son how limiting and “categorizing” it was, he thought it was kinda funny. EVEN tho he absolutely hates the stereotypes his friends seem to believe to be true about his “Asian” sister…..
Oh, and the “so what did you do?” is such a useful tool in parenting! I have found so often that it helps me take a breath and NOT rush forward in my own strength or “street smarts,” but to stop for a moment and ask for HIS wisdom. Plus, on a much lighter note, I have often (too often?!) found that IT really wasn’t at all what I thought it was gonna be and it’s saved me a ton of embarrassing moments. And NOT just with my kids!