Our young children are currently in the grammar (or "poll-parrot" as Dorothy Spears called it) stage of learning. I love this phase because of the many amusing questions the children will ask me each day. Our 4-year old is the practical realist. I wrote more about his thinking style in the
girl vs. boy post. He wants to know how everything works. Today he asked me, "
Do flies eat trash?" I see the beginnings of the scientific method taking place in his mind as he has obviously observed a lot of flies congregating around trash bins. His question sounded as if he was trying to form a hypothesis.
Our 7-year old's questions indicate that, as the older child, she is further along this phase of mental processing. She is not only absorbing facts, but she is beginning to consider the meaning and implications of these facts. After dinner this evening, she picked up one of her old Language and Literature books from kindergarten and began rereading it. She asked me, "
Mom, doesn't the Bible say that the man should be the head of the household?"
I wanted to cite
Ephesians 5:23 and clearly explain to her once again that God has appointed and equipped the man to serve as head of the home just as Christ is the head of the man and of the church. The man is not any more valuable than the woman, but God has given men and women different roles and responsibilities which are still equal in significance. And the husband must love his wife as Christ loves the church. I was too tired to say all that, so I merely replied, "Yes, dear, why do you ask?"
She responded, "
Well, it says here in this excerpt from Cinderella that Cinderella 'did not complain to her father, for his new wife ruled him entirely.' That's not right, Mom. Cinderella's father should have ruled over the home."
Well said, my child, and when people continue to disobey God's wise instruction,
no one lives happily ever after.
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