Willie and I were talking during lunch today and he told me that today at school everyone was saying their favorite colors. "And I told everyone my favorite color is blue because everyone else's was, and I wanted to fit in." His favorite color is really green. It made me sad that he is already worrying about fitting in. We had a good talk with him about it though. We are reading about Abinadi and how he "boldly" answered all the priests questions. He wasn't ashamed. We asked him if Abinadi would have said his favorite color was blue, just to fit in. He smiled and said, no, he would have said red. So apparently Abinadi's favorite color is red...But I was glad that we could tie in our scriptures to his life. Hopefully he learns that it is ok to be different and it is not so important to fit in that he needs to change who he is. I didn't think kids started worrying about fitting in so early.
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This breaks my heart a little. I realized this problem, when in Kindygarten Macy told me she HAD to have Sketchers for PE!
I'll have to ask Linc about this. For the last few weeks his favorite color has been pink, so I'm interested to hear what he said...
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