the other day, mark was watching the movie, "beauty and the beast" while i cooked dinner. i was enjoying listening to the music from one of my favorite disney shows. and was deep in thought reminiscing over the first time i watched "beauty and the beast." how as a young girl i loved the brown-haired princess (finally one with brown hair like me). i loved the lessons the movie taught as well. it valued reading. good. and it taught principles of seeing inner beauty and forgiving each other. i was thinking about these, wondering which ones my son would pick up on as he watched it. i was beginning to plan a fhe around this movie, when my thoughts were interrupted by mark running past me saying, "i got to get my knife mommy."
my thoughts: ummmm....ok, i'm going to put this chicken down and pay a little more attention to mark.
what i said: mark, honey, come back. you don't have a knife. why do you need a knife right now?
mark: mommy, i need my knife. i need one.
me: why? weren't you watching "beauty and the beast."
mark: yeah, and i need to get that bad guy.
me: who?
mark: 'ston (gaston), the bad guy getting the beast. i need help him.
me: so you need to help the beast fight gaston?
mark: yeah mommy. hurry. he need me now.
my thoughts: sigh, so much for understanding inner beauty. laughing. man, in all my years watching and singing along with that movie, never once did i have the reaction, "i need to get my knife" to "beauty and the beast." boys and girls are very different.
3 comments:
hahaha! This is so BOY!
Tell me about it! Jackson did almost the exact same thing after watching that movie. Everything became a knife and he was always trying to fight against the bad guys. Boys.
That's a classic! Thanks for sharing:) Yes, boys and girls are different. Read Bringing up Boys by James Dobson. It's great! He also wrote bringing up girls, if you have one next :)
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