Comments on: Angels and the Disadvantage of Facts https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Jason https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-288451 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:57:18 +0000 http://kimandjason.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html#comment-288451 Ah…out of the mouths of babes.

]]> By: Minette https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-287919 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:50:54 +0000 http://kimandjason.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html#comment-287919 My older sister, Marla, used to discuss “handicaps” with her kids. (The fact I’m deaf started the conversation.) She told them if someone’s in a wheelchair or on crutches or something else, it’s ok to ask them why but it’s also ok for the person to say it was private. Well, my nephew was about 5 at the time and they went to a food court at the mall and he noticed a woman who was what we now call “weight challenged”. With his mother’s rules in mind, he walks over to the woman and in a rather loud voice, asks her, “why are you so much bigger than my mom?” My sister smiles weakly at the woman and prays she won’t yell at her son. Fortunately, the woman had a sense of humor about it all, she smiled, leaned down and said, “I probably eat more than your mom does!” He looked at what she was eating and said, “Yeah, you do!”, then walks back, satisfied. We still laugh at this story. Never be afraid to ask questions!

]]> By: Naomi Dunford https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-287914 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:35:42 +0000 http://kimandjason.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html#comment-287914 When I was pregnant with Colin, who I surrogated for another couple, Michael was almost 3. Whenever you see a pregnant woman with a small child, it is the law that you go up to said small child and ask them if they’re going to be a big brother (or sister, where applicable.)

Michael’s response at the bank teller window:

“Oh, no. I’m not going to really be a big brother. We don’t get to keep this baby. The lady’s going to come and take this baby to another Mummy.”

]]> By: Jason https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-287642 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:28:23 +0000 http://kimandjason.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html#comment-287642 Thanks, Shirley. Children as our tribal elders…I like that :)

]]> By: Shirley https://escapeadulthood.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-287607 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:52:57 +0000 http://kimandjason.com/blog/2008-01-07/angels-and-the-disadvantage-of-facts.html#comment-287607 Jason,
As I just told Kim – I just love your web site. Here is yet another example of the fun, insight and hilarity that I always find here. Children as like our tribal elders, they have so much understanding of life because they see without any of the preconceived notions that adults have.

I’ve always loved reading children’s books about magic. My favorite thing as an adult reading them is how many say that adults can’t do magic because they loose it as they grow up. And the writers are
adults! (Or are they children in disguise? I sometimes wonder.) Those books often help me keep the magic alive in my own life.

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