It's May!!! How did this happen? It's WARM outside. So many blooms everywhere. Evil pests are back to eating everything they can in our garden (they munched down the baby pea shoots!!!).
I feel like an Uber-mom. Because I'm constantly driving people everywhere.
At times, I feel so overwhelmed - because multiple things are happening all at once and I need to make sure people can get to and from their activities if I'm occupied elsewhere and can't drive them.
Random Questions:
- Does ideology require propaganda? (ideology, in this case, can mean anything like freedom, democracy, family values, individualism, socialism... - anything that any particular group can say "this is who we are and what we value".)
- How can one encourage gratefulness in kids who have lived privileged lives and have no point of reference?
- What helps with staying calm and balanced?
- Is there anyone out there who truly understands how electrons can be a wave and a particle and how that affects reality?
- How do people get their kids to want to help out around the house? How do we teach compassion? (I suspect one needs to start early, when the kids are very little...)
I am struggling with the same question re: privileged kids. My kids are tremendously privileged and I honestly don't know how to explain that to them. I do want to bring them to Russia when war is over - hopefully soon.
ReplyDeleteCompassion and cleaning up... Probably by modeling? But I also cajole them and say thing like "if you don't clean up your Legos I'm gonna step on them and hurt my foot, and that would be painful for me." Which is the truth.