Last week, NPR aired a story about an Iraqi girl who needed life-saving surgery, and the drama around trying to make that happen in today's Iraq. My wife and I are frequent listeners of NPR news broadcasts, and on this day it became apparent that we are not the only family listeners. Genevieve had many questions about this story, and in trying to figure it out began asking basic questions about the nature of good and evil, what is good and bad, why do people do bad things, and does it follow that doing bad things make you a bad person.
97 pieces of the man is all they ever found
That is one of the lines from a version the children's song And the Cat Came Back that we were listening to in my effort to expose my children to more music. We were in the car, and following that line Genevieve asked, "Daddy, how did that man get broke?"
I thought for a quick moment and said, "Well, the song doesn't really go into the details of that, does it? Sometimes, when people sing songs or tell stories, they don't tell you all of the details about something like to make it more scary, because then people will use their own imagination to make up how something like that might happen."
Without hesitation, she replied, "Oh, like I think the cat had sharp knives, and then he had a gun, and the cat used them to do that."
She followed that up with an explanation that the man was probably bad, so that is why the cat broke the man. We didn't get so far as to cover the morality of lethal self-defense. We talked about calling the police to take care of people doing bad things. She is really into figuring out what to do about bad actions / people.
Governor of Hawaii
It's not the kids that need to be cut off from NPR news -- daddy needs it. I had a (loooong drawn out) dream that I was filing papers to run for governor of Hawaii against two women. One of them was Hillary Clinton. It did not look like Hawaii, and for some reason I couldn't figure how to get out of it. The dream went on for a long time. It was not a restful night.
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