So the kids and I have been reading a couple of kid’s books about WWII. In a picture book, you can’t get too in-depth into the evils of the Nazi regime. You pretty much just focus on being brave. Well, one of the pictures had a flag with a swastika on it, and Tommy noted that it looked like a spider. I didn’t feel the need to stop right there and explain that it is a symbol of evil, hatred, racism, and all that stuff. I probably should have, because this afternoon, Tommy came running over to tell me that he had drawn German spiders on the back patio!
I was in the middle of another failed attempt at taking good pictures of my etsy products, so I had the presence of mind to snap a picture before freaking out, telling him that those are evil signs, and making him scratch them out. (With our luck, it will be another 2 months before it rains and washes them out…) Next up: Derek gets to explain to our 5/16 German son why Germans were the bad guys 70 years ago.
I think he is actually 3/8 German (assuming Dad has no German blood), but who is counting. What book were you reading? Remember that the littlest Van Trapp girl called the swastikas spiders in the Sound of Music?
What a hoot!!!!
The book with the swastika picture was The Great Skating Race. And yep, he’s a little less than 3/8 German because of that spot of Irish from Great-Grandma Tony!=)
Which, she would tell you, means that he’s Irish with some other blood thrown in!
The things the kids pick up on. I hope the talk went well.
Well, at least he didn’t draw them on the front sidewalk. . .