Being Human

I really found Bloom's section regarding Children and Death quite enlightening.  I never really thought about why children view death differently than adults.  It brought to mind an incident a couple years ago regarding my younger nephew and my parent's cat.  Their cat was the last one they had and he finally died a couple years ago and my parent's thought they should let my nephews no about the cat's passing.  I am not sure what exactly they said, but somewhere in the conversation they mentioned the cat was buried in the back yard.  My younger nephew immediately went upstairs grabbed his truck, headed downstairs and proceeded to head for the back door.  When asked what he was doing he said, "I am going to dig up the cat."  He just thought the cat was sleeping and didn't understand that the cat was not sleeping.  

Bloom's section regarding death put into perspective why my nephew would have thought the cat was just taking a nap.  Really makes one think what the "right" way and "wrong"  way to tell children that somebody died.

My sister brought this to my attention while I was chatting with her on-line and thought this might be an interesting article to share with everyone. Makes you wonder about people when they start fighting over a pothole. Hopefully the link below will work as I am still learning how to do that on here.

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I went to Oprah's website and she goes more in depth about her show last Friday.  If anyone missed the show or would like a little bit more information they should go check it out.  One of the sections has some questions that are very interesting and probably goes a long way in explaining why some children act the way the do and why parents just cannot say NO. 

Do you think your inability to say no is harming your kids? These are three questions you need to ask yourself.

 

Here is the website where you can find those questions and more.

 www.oprah.com

Okay, that might not be quite the title she has for it, but it certainly is an apt description of the preview I saw yesterday.  I thought it might be interesting to watch as she is going to be discussing children who are spoiled and who rule the roost at home.  She showed some clips of a child around 5 terrorizing her parents and another clip of a teenager who feels entitled... that she should be spoiled.  I find it interesting how some children are that way and others not so much that way.  Are some children pre-dispositioned to expect things be handed to them or to be a terror or is it the way parent's raise them? 

This just came to me Saturday after watching the video in class about those two professors discussing Gender and the Sexes.  I am not sure why this came to me then, but it did.  I was hoping to find an answer in our Human Development book Chapter 1.5, but there wasn't one to be found there.  I do have to say it was interesting to find that the scientific world have tried to explain woman in a male context and that it doesn't work, but I digress..  My burning question and if anyone has an answer to it would be wonderful Who ever made the decision that Blue would be for boys and Pink would be for girls?  Doesn't designating a basic color to a sex mess things up? I am just curious.  You go to the store and you'll find lots of blue stuff in the boys section and lots of pink stuff in the girls section.  What if you don't like pink?  Why couldn't a different color been designated for the sexes like green or purple or orange?? 

 Okay if you can't tell I have a hangup about Pink and ruffles and lace to be exact.  I blame it all on being the first born and the first grandchild and being a girl in general and the family thought it would be cute to dress me up in pink, ruffles, and lace and I just hate it!!  You will not find a pink item in my cloest.  Actually you'd be lucky to find a dress in there.  I am a jeans and t-shirt kind of gal.  That's another thing - whoever made the decision that girls wore dresses and boys wore pants?  I am so glad we live in a day and age where girls are not required to wear dresses anymore.  I'd be in big trouble that's for sure.

I just want to say Yea!!!  I finally am able to log on thanks to our wonderful instructor!!  I am in the midst of fixing dinner, but now that I can get on here I will be creating blogs and answering blogs.  :)