Defenses against jealousy

Northstarmom
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:19:09 +0000

When my kids went to nursery school, it was a wonderful place that taught the children about all kinds of diversity including various religions’ December celebration. As a result, my older son, the age 4, asked me for a dreidle, which I got for him.

Shortly after, I was on TV talking about Kwanzaa while my kids were home being babysat. The sitter told me later that while my kids watched me on TV (in our Christmas-decorated home), my older S was playing with the dreidel. I think that’s really cool, and a wonderful example of the open mindedness that can happen when kids get exposure to various cultures’ beliefs and customs.