Keeping them In A Bubble | All In A Dad's Work Skip to primary content All In A Dad's Work It’s about husbanding, daddying, and a dog. Search Main menu Home About Blogs & Links Contact Post navigation ← Previous Next → Keeping them In A Bubble Posted on October 25, 2017 by stomperdad “Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.” Thanks, A Momma’s View for the challenge Bang: You’re a senior. 40, 41, 42, year olds are seniors. Me: If I’m a senior then what is Nanny? (DW’s mom) Bang: Meh… she’s just an old woman. Crash was in primary when he learned he wouldn’t live forever. He took it pretty rough and for the next few months he’d get worried about it. It was during that phase that the Sandy Hook shootings occurred. He knew nothing about it, nor did we tell him. Two years later, in 2013, we were watching the Boston Marathon. We had friends there and me being an “avid” runner, we were interested. Then everything changed. Crash knew people had been hurt, but watching it on TV, for him it wasn’t exactly real. It was very real and we didn’t tell him the final outcome. We’ve read Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee so he’s heard of racism. He’s never witnessed it. He’s never heard of it in the real world. In his world every is treated equally no matter where they’re from or what color their skin might be or what gender they are. He knows President Tweetsalot is in office to the south of us. He knows DW and I don’t like him. He doesn’t know why. He doesn’t know all controversy the President has caused. He’s a pre-teen now. He’s told us so himself. How much longer can we keep this big, bad world from him? Should we even be keeping it from him in the first place? How much is too much? I just want to keep them all wrapped up in our happy bubble… Shout Out: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) More Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Children, Dad, kids, News, Parenting, Parents, Politics, Protect, World by stomperdad. Bookmark the permalink. 15 thoughts on “Keeping them In A Bubble” Ann GrubbsnCritters on October 26, 2017 at 2:34 am said: Can’t keep them that much longer in a bubble, can we? Wish I could too… We do tell the kids of what’s going on in the world and having to explain lots of things since they watch news/animal planet with us. And they know our sentiments on Mr Tweetalot. We love their questions. For now they are still in a little bubble. 😊 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ stomperdad on October 26, 2017 at 9:19 am said: If the boys were ask about current events, I would gladly tell them, but I find it’s not something I’m going to just tell them. Perhaps if we told them about all the bad things it would help them want to do better? LikeLike Reply ↓ Ann GrubbsnCritters on November 3, 2017 at 5:35 pm said: Perhaps…the thing is we don’t know what goes on in these young minds. It is a conundrum to tell or not – depending on how deep a topic is, I suppose. LikeLiked by 1 person stomperdad on November 4, 2017 at 11:16 am said: If they ask I tell. If they don’t ask, I don’t tell. That’s been my philosophy so far. I suppose kids are different in how much “news’ they can handle and understand. LikeLike Dewy on October 26, 2017 at 4:57 am said: Can’t keep them like that forever. What we did was have discussions at dinner. Drugs, racism, dole bludgers etc and you’d be surprised at what the kids come up with. Current affairs are good topics to discuss. We’ve been doing it all these years. It’s a way of steering them into the right direction. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ stomperdad on October 26, 2017 at 9:23 am said: I’m going to have to face the music at some point, eh? There are plenty of current event topics to discuss. No shortage there! It’s keeping the comedians in business, too. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ Dewy on October 26, 2017 at 5:04 pm said: Yes 😊 LikeLiked by 1 person itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on October 26, 2017 at 8:10 am said: I have always tried to be as honest as possible with my son, but at times, it is impossible to explain to a child, why humans like hurting other humans, or racism. He knows about the political system in the UK and he seems to know about Brexit, but doesn’t understand it, as he grows older, he will discover these things for himself and hopefully I would of taught him enough for him to be able to handle it, its a thin line though. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ stomperdad on October 26, 2017 at 9:27 am said: If the boys were ask about things going on in the world, I would gladly tell them. Like when we saw the Marathon Bombing on TV. We told him what we knew at the time, but he was only 6. I just don’t want him to start hearing about all these bad things and be shocked. At the same time I want him to believe the world is a good place, that there are more good people than bad. It’s a fine line… LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on October 26, 2017 at 9:35 am said: I agree, so far we haven’t had to deal with anything like that, hopefully I wont have to, but like you I want to wrap him up in bubble LikeLiked by 1 person amommasview on October 26, 2017 at 3:43 pm said: Trying to keep them in the happy bubble for as long as possible is a good thing. Eventually though, it will get to them. But I think they will always remember their happy bubble and see it as a place to escape to again when needed. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ stomperdad on October 26, 2017 at 9:33 pm said: Having a happy bubble to escape to is a good thing 🙂 LikeLike Reply ↓ larva225 on October 27, 2017 at 7:43 pm said: I know what you mean! 😭😭 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ Erika on November 4, 2017 at 11:27 pm said: The first really bad thing LM learned about was 9/11 at school when he was 7. I wasn’t ready for him to know about that sort of thing, but once the cat is out of the bag, it’s out of the bag. Finding the right words to explain that sort of thing is really tough. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ stomperdad on November 5, 2017 at 2:25 pm said: Crash has a book called “True Heroes of 9/11” that a teacher gave him at school as a gift (Scholastic). He has read it, but didn’t question anything. Or at least not to his mother and I. It’s really hard to explain in kid terms why people would create such tragedies. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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