Missyj
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Registered: 11/08/07
Posts: 51
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My girls (ages 6 and 9) went to the 5th grade hallway to see their upper-classmates' project. The 5th graders have been studying poverty in other countries. The girls were disturbed by what they saw. I feel like the photos were too much for their age, but the information surrounds us.
They both told me about pictures of children with pronounced hip bones and ribs because they were starving.
I remember after Katrina when Emily asked, "Mom, couldn't God stop the storm? Why didn't He?" Brilliant minds grapple with such questions. I wasn't ready to deal with them quite so soon.
At the dinner table we talk about what's going on in Myanmar and China. We correspond with the girl in China who supplied the tins for Devotionables. They also make tins for Papo, and when the company sent us the sample of Devotionables' tin, she also tucked Papo tins into the package for the girls.
"Maybe they use it to carry pencil to school," she told me. She hopes to have children of her own one day, but right now she lives in one room at her factory where she cooks on a hot plate and sends money to her family.
How do you dialogue with your children about world events? What questions have they asked that caught you off guard?
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Dubld
Registered: 12/06/07
Posts: 24
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God is not suprised by anything. I've been dwelling on that thought lately, and it just causes me to be increasingly amazed at who God is - the very little I can comprehend of Him and the enormity of what I cannot. |
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