Last week I took Theresa for mommy and daughter day out. I nursed Maria really good, and put her for a nap, and DH played with Gerard. I needed to get some grocery, and Theresa wanted to choose her birthday cake (I now realised that choosing a birthday cake is a serious business for soon-to-be 6 girl).
Anyway, I decided that it's time for her to have a haircut. I normally just trim her bang myself, but since I didn't do a good job trimming the rest of her hair the other day, this time I gave in and spending my money on her hair.
So we went, and the hairdresser was really friendly and nice. It took a lot of effort from Theresa to sit still for such a long time. She started wiggling, and then the conversation went like this:
Hairdresser: "Don't move, you don't want your hair to be cricket, don't you? what would your boyfriend say?"
Me: "??"
Theresa:"...." (while looking at me)
Hairdresser: "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Theresa: "???....."
Me to Theresa: "You have a friend who is a boy, you have friends who are boys and girls"
My baby girl doesn't know today's world definition of "boyfriend", which I'm really glad. She is only 6 years old. Is it so normal nowadays that a 6 year old is having a boyfriend? wow...
It's getting harder for parents nowadays to preserve the innocence of a child in today's world. Everyday, more and more the world is trying to rob these little souls' innocent.
We were watching TV (we don't watch TV during the day, when DH home, he turns on TV for a little while), and I can see my kids' eyes were glued to that screen and at the same time, I noticed how quickly DH change the channel, because everywhere he noticed the programs or commercials that are not suitable for the souls, young and old.
The conversation with the hairdresser made me realise that I have to arm myself to protect these innocent souls that The Lord entrusted into my care. How the world has become a very very scary place. At the same time, in prudence, I have to teach these children to become God's army. They need to know what's going on in the world in order to be able to fight for what is right. They need to know that we are in this world in order to know, love and serve God, and to prepare ourselves for Heaven, but we can not be part of the world, because we are not made for the world, we are made for Heaven.
Our weapons won't be deadly weapons, but our weapon will be Rosary and the Eucharist, and we'll be dressed in humility, prudence, and charity.
Now, if only I could find my dress of humility, prudence, and charity, so I can put it on myself and set a good example for my kids, because today I haven't been a charitable mommy toward my kiddos.
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Oh my goodness, do I ever hate when people ask my 4.5 yr old that question. I sometimes don't even answer. He just looks at me. Ugh. THe worst is my father in law who does that. I absolutely can't stand it. And I definitely have no dress of humility or charity anywhere in sight where I hear those comments.
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