Moral Hang-Ups

When you think about it growing up actually makes your eyes shut to curiosity and innocence. It really is a shame because curiosity and innocence lead to creativity and imagination. As adults we could all use a little more imagination. Children don't think twice about playing doctor or playing baby and changing each others diapers using diaper wipes ...but I digress. These games aren't sexual or horrendous like we adults see them, they are simply created out of curiosity and perfectly normal. It is so hard not to have your moral compass and your temper explode and blow everything out of proportion. The problem is that by making these things bad or dirty causes kids to think of their bodies that way. As an adult our job it to take these opportunities as learning tools. These types of things open the door to talk about private body parts and how they aren't to share. I know that this post sounds level headed and calm but in reality I am writing it to simmer myself down, to try and remember what it is like to be 5 and wonder about everything and everyone especially about similarities and differences. I try to remember that an elbow and a leg are about the same to them as a bottom or a boobie until we make it something different.