Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tip #3

Those eyes aren't red on accident. She crazy!



Sometimes we listen to this song, because it's important, based on most of the BBC programming that I've seen, that the gentry need to be able to get down. And whether that's putting your hands together and staring at one another like they do or just breaking it down to a song with a bit of a beat, it's not a bad idea for the dictator to dance.




Tip #3
Teach her about opinions. Teach her that there are in fact a difference between informed and uninformed opinions. Teach her that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that it's best, if not well thought out, that they keep it to themselves. That way, if somebody ever says, "that's just your opinion" when she says it's in the galaxy's best interest to build a bridge from the center of the Pacific Ocean to the moon, she can then explain the technical nuances involved the project, point out how it will drastically raise jobs in a faltering economy, provide a lengthy slide for children of appropriate ages, and then maybe something about the continual renewal of human ingenuity, she can sway them, and barring that, excommunicate them. The point is, not all opinions are created equal. It's important to teach her to spend a good deal of time before forming them, and then to be open to reevaluating them on an annual or biannual basis. If her assumption is that war is bad, teach her to examine some cases where it may have prevented further deaths. Ideally, teach her that the ideologies of the right and the isms of the left are both pretty dangerous things as seen in our own country of late, and throughout the world during the twentieth century. Teach her that it is okay to admit that she might occasionally be wrong, that learning (cliche though it may be) is a lifetime process, politically, religiously, ideologically etc, so it's important to keep her mind open and her thoughts considered deeply, and repeatedly.

Then teach her the word benevolent dictator and stop worrying, She's currently running in circles around the kitchen table with a small puzzle piece of a bunny in her hand saying, "hop, hop." Good things are coming her way.

2 comments:

  1. What's so crazy about the Sadie-bug running and bunny-hopping? What's crazy is saying your daughter (precious, itty-bitty, loveable, beautiful daughter) is crazy.

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  2. red eyes at night,
    parents delight
    red eyes in the morning
    parents take warning!!

    how about red eyes when you peer into the crib
    late at night...?????

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