entrenched ideas

[Martin S]

Was with friends at a family party this weekend (not my family), kilted a usual. Few comments. But a 5-6-year-old showed how well her thinking had been preconditioned by asking me why I was wearing a skirt. I felt she was too young for the word "kilt" to have any meaning for her, so asked in my turn why she -- and her mum -- were wearing trousers.
Blank look.
"But why are you wearing a skirt?" she went on.
"Well I'd be cold wihtout one," I said.
"But you're a boy."
"Yes, I said. That's why I don't want to dress like you and you mum."
But her brain had been so well washed, that she remained quite unconvinced.
Children speak aloud what adults think quietly.

Martin

[Kilted KT]

Looks like we need to start the education process sooner...

anyone know any kilted children's book artists?

[RockyR]

Title: "So your DADDY is going to wear the kilt"

[switchblade5984]

hahaha good one rocky!

5-6 their minds are sponges and could always use a little edjamacation!

i say tell her its a kilt... but thats just my Opinion

[Kilted KT]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

[davedove]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

I seem to recall Grover wearing a kilt sometime. Maybe we should start a letter writing campaign to get a kilted muppet.

[arrogcow]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

Elmo has been kilted.

And there was a receint episode that had a piper (kilted generic muppet w/accent) who left his pipes and telly, Zoe and Baby Bear were trying to figure out what they were.

Adam

[Rex_Tremende]

I was at Target this weekend, picking through the dregs of the Halloween candy, when I saw from the corner of my eye a young lad - roughly second or third grade - as he asked his mother, "Who is that man in the skirt?" Before I could assess the situation, mother shushed him and whisked him around the corner. I never heard whether she offered an explanation, deferral, or a lesson in manners, but I thought the interesting thing was that the question was "who," not "why."

Apparently, if you are a man in a skir--- uh, KILT, you must be somebody.

Regards,
Rex

[McClef]

Well so many females in trousers, someone has to redress the balance!

[morrison]

... ... ... Children speak aloud what adults think quietly. Martin

We as adults carry it so very far by teaching our children little or nothing about looking past perceived boundaries. We seem to miss the opportunities to show our progeny that jumping out of the box may be acceptable, that thinking outside the prescribed thoughts is not unlawfull. Worst of all, we don't show our youth the way to form their own conclusions through thinking, experimentation and study and research for information gathering.