A Package Deal

After thinking about Little Sibs Weekend, I couldn't stop thinking about how different Children see the world than we do. The little girls I babysit were on my mind the entire weekend. It's true that "Kid's say the darndest things." They only believe in the things they see and match together. I usually babysit with one of my friends Hil, we joke that we come as a package deal. On Hilary's birthday, Allie(6) and Emily (4) called her to sing her a happy birthday. As soon as they were done singing they asked her "where's Kenz???". They couldn't even connect the fact that we wouldn't be together all the time. I wonder if that was one of the things we would never grow out of, the idea that we only believe in what we see. Kid's are the greatest about believe in make believe things, but if it's something that makes sense to adults(much like two teenage babysitters not always being together), Kid's sometimes just don't get it.

I read an article about the less sophisticated things children connect and what we grow out of. I can't even keep track of the things on the list that kids argue from seeing verses believing.  When we're little, we believe in the little things, in the tooth fairy, that we can fly, that we can make pretend to be just about anything. My favorite thing that children think is that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up. As we grow older we grow out of some of these believes, and start to believe in other nominal things that we can't see, muc

h like love. I can't stop thinking about when the cross over from seeing and believing, the tooth fairy to true love, and children to adult. 

Sometimes, I'd like to think we all find a little childish side that never left, even the stuff we can't explain. Like the last time Hilary went to babysit, while I was at school.

Emily: Hi Hil, mom, when is Kenz coming?

Mom: Oh she's at school honey, she's not coming tonight.

Emily: But...it's dark out...? 

Things like this make me wish everyday was my fifth birthday.