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What Can We Tell Little Kids About The World Today?
If you have an answer to this question, I’d love to hear it.
I have four grand-kids between the ages of 2 and 7. They are the light of my life, my wife’s life, and the lives of the the kids parents and the other grandparents. All four are surrounded by loving family members that include cousins, uncles, aunts, us grandparents and a great many family friends who fill in from time to when called upon.
All four kids are surrounded by love. They live in a safe country by world standards - (Canada). They are well fed, well dressed and respond to the love they are provided with love and the cheekiness and innocence that are so much part of young children’s personas. The two eldest attend a local elementary school in the area they live in.
One attends a school in a very multi-racial suburban area and is friends with other children with backgrounds that include Chinese, South Asian, Asian and an assortment of other ethnic groups. He does not discriminate. He is friends with any other kid who wants to be friends with him.
The other school age grandchild attends school in a rural area where 90 percent of the kids are white. She does not discriminate in spite of the predominance of kids from her ethnic group. She also will also befriend anyone who…
