I often wondered for a few years why my folks looked dismayed when I said the Tooth Fairy was a cheap bastard 

Quote from: niamh on April 13, 2011, 03:23:07 PM
What's the going rate? When I was a kid it was 50p. If we were very lucky it was a pound but that hardly never happened.

When I was a kid in the early '60s it was $.50, a real silver 50 cent piece or two silver quarters!  It bought a lot back then.
  Joelene

2 bucks for a tooth these days!! 

  Funny thing about her name... My partner and I had decided on it long before she was born and long before the films. I read "the Lord of the Rings" when I was 15. We used to vacation in P-Town, Mass, where there's a shop called, "Galadriel's." My partner loved the name and it meant so much to me...

  As it turns out, she's got long, blond hair now and a personality to match her name. She has been a light when all seemed dark in my life and I had lost all hope. Her class was assigned a project on bullying recently; I'd like to post the story she wrote and presented to her class (as she wrote it)

  Once there was a boy named David who always got bullyed. Every day someone would bully him. He got bullyed because he did't act like a boy he acted like a girl. So he told the bully to STOP because David had enough of being bullyed. After school david went home crying cause david felt bad about yelling at the bully. but it was the right thing to do. One day after school david told his mom and dad that he felt like a girl inside. one day when david was all grown up he decided to change from boy to girl. Now her name is JESSICA ROWAN. she never gets bullyed she is TRANSECSHUWALL EVERYBODY!!!

  She was so proud of herself... She even drew pictures to illustrate her story. She gets it..... She's such an amazing little person!!!!


 

That is so sweet Jessica. I hope my little boy reaches that level of acceptance one day.

Quote from: JessicaR on April 13, 2011, 11:38:09 PM
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Wow! That's so great!! 

Quote from: JessicaR on April 13, 2011, 11:38:09 PM
She gets it..... She's such an amazing little person!!!!

I still remember being a kid and frequently dismissed by the adults around me.  They had no clue I understood so many of the things going on around me.  Even as a teenager and young adult, they rarely appreciated my depth of feelings and emotions.

Children are amazing creatures, and incredibly flexible in their ability to process, decide, and finally understand and appreciate the world around them.  It's generally the closed-minded behavior of the adults surrounding them that limits their progress, not anything inherent in the children themselves.

You're very fortunate to have such a great and amazing daughter.  You have certainly done something right in raising her  

Quote from: Caith on April 14, 2011, 09:21:50 AM
I still remember being a kid and frequently dismissed by the adults around me.  They had no clue I understood so many of the things going on around me.  Even as a teenager and young adult, they rarely appreciated my depth of feelings and emotions.

Children are amazing creatures, and incredibly flexible in their ability to process, decide, and finally understand and appreciate the world around them.  It's generally the closed-minded behavior of the adults surrounding them that limits their progress, not anything inherent in the children themselves.

You're very fortunate to have such a great and amazing daughter.  You have certainly done something right in raising her  

It's so sad that so many adults forget they they have been children themselves. There is so much to learn from them.

I don't mean to inject any religious discussion into this thread, but needed to say it, anyway.  It's my personal belief we're given the gift of children precisely to remind us of how much fun it was, after we're all grown up with too many responsibilities and not nearly enough fun of our own.

Quote from: Caith on April 14, 2011, 03:50:14 PM
I don't mean to inject any religious discussion into this thread, but needed to say it, anyway.  It's my personal belief we're given the gift of children precisely to remind us of how much fun it was, after we're all grown up with too many responsibilities and not nearly enough fun of our own.

I don't think there is any need to be religious to say exactly that about children. Without them, the world would certainly loose it's vitality and dynamic to be replaced with cynicism and boredom.