This book is really getting to me. It is really making me think about my morals and religion. The name of the book is Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. Sis, I will give it to you when I'm done to read. I can only read for about 20 minutes before I have to close the book and think about my position on what is happening. The one point that is raised that I totally agree with is that when you have children, your sense of right and wrong totally changes. There is a time in every one's life when you think about yourself; and what is done onto you. When you have children, it is no longer about yourself, or the people you love in your family. You need to protect your child. As a mother, it comes down to your children. They grew under your heart. You felt every movement, and can cry at the drop of a hat for the world they have to grow up in and the challenges they face. It brings back memories of your own childhood. You hope to get them ready for the teasing, disappointments, and loneliness that face them. Bottom line, being a parent is hard. You need to teach your children the difference from apparent right and wrong. I feel the more important lesson to teach your children is the moral high road. THAT is hard. I am always telling my boys to put themselves in somebody else's spot. What would you be feeling, thinking, wanting. I also try and tell them to NOT go against what they believe. I feel it important to have my boys "be boys", but also have compassion for others. Can you believe a fiction book can make you feel. That, in my opinion, is the reason to read. For thought. To look inside yourself and think about your morals and life. Big son is in the grade where he is reading Mice of Men, Ann Frank, To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. I read them with him and we have great depates about what happens. How Great is that. To use books that I read and loved and be able to relate through children. It is true that the world opens through books.
Happy Easter Everyone.
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I'm looking forward to re-reading the classics when Miss starts reading them for the first time. Even the ones not assigned in school,'How to Eat Fried Worms', 'Are You There God, It's Me Margaret', and 'The Outsiders' stick out in my mind. We are big readers here so that is a level playing field for us. Whenever the girls have a question, it's always "Let's look it up!"
I feel that by having read and encourage reading with the boys they may get a different interpretation from what they will get in school. It is a great way to bring up the "what would you do" question. Teachers have their lesson plan for the reading of a book, but as a parent, if you read it too, you are able to bring up a different perspective and a different set of questions.
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