His first response was "I don't want to be big, I want to stay little." Then I was like, "okay" and thought that a little one saying that wasn't anything new because I want to stay little too. Life is fun when you are a child. It was his next response that got me hard though. I told him, "Okay, then you can just be strong." His response was," I don't want to be strong" and I asked him why. He responded, "When I am strong at home, I get a whooping." I told him that being strong where I work was okay because that is a safe way to be but he still wouldn't fall for the nap that way. he did go take one, though, because he knew he had too.
I just thought about what he said while I was rocking him to sleep at nap time. Are people really saying that to little boys these days? Are people keeping their little boys from going outside and playing in the mud and going on their little adventures back in the woods? No wonder there truly are less "man" out there nowadays. The little boys stay home in front of the TV or video games then go outside. That is why we are getting a lot more hyper and non imaginative little boys. Their parents don't make them go outside anymore.
It is funny because here I am a girl and I remember going outside almost all the time when I was little and honestly that is probably what helped in keeping me alive. From a Christian point of view, we should spend time in the outdoors, in God's Creation, and it is a lot of fun when we spend it with someone else. Summer is not the time for me to spend outside so I haven't lately and I don't regret it but in the Fall, Winter, or Spring when the temp. is cool enough and there is snow coming down I do get upset when I don't get to go out. I always try to make a point in my day when the weather is cool.
It is just sad how the people of this world take God's Creation for granted. When you go to another country, you see sand and not a lot of trees or even flowers around because it is mainly hot or you are in the bigger cities where most of the people are. In other countries, those people literally live of the land so they have to be outside working the land, farming it and what not. They don't really have time to enjoy it like we do but yet when they are farming they make themselves enjoy that time that they are farming it. i
To me, the outdoors just make people stronger because when you see what God has done and made for us in Creation, then you start to wonder "what can God do for me?" Look at a sun set one night or the fireflies in a park raising up at dusk or the leaves changing colors in the Fall or the flowers in the Spring after a long Winter. Our God is a God of Creation and we take that for granted a lot of times. Creation is a gift
to us and we should enjoy it like that plus you can do a lot more things in the outdoors then you can do inside a building.I'm sorry but to me keeping little boys inside and telling them that they can't be strong is just not right. God didn't make little boys to be that way. He made them to be strong, adventurous, hunters, protectors and so on. This entry might be a little basis and if it comes across that way I'm sorry. I'm not meaning it too but people need to realize what we are doing to boys these days. That comment my little boy made really got me thinking about my future children (boys) if and when I have any and how I want to raise them. Sadly, it might be different by that time but that is not going to stop me. No one can stop a person from enjoying God's Creation. Just sayin'.
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