Prop8 Opinions of a 3yo • 01.12.09
An interesting conversation about marriage keeps coming up with Piper. She is dead set on getting married to either Conner or Will, both daycare companions. That idea that she understands what it is to be married fascinates me since she is so young. Perhaps being a self described “beautiful princess” and entertained by various Walt Disney movies where the princess is always rescued and ultimately married by her handsome prince helps a little as well.
It seems though that even with a three year old there are boundaries about marriage that must be understood and obeyed. This, on top of just the concept, Missy and I both found intriguing. We certainly expose her to the movies and the concepts and the princess dresses, etc… but we have not really paid attention to the values that she is picking up from such things.
On a few different occassion, mainly to see if the results of our query would be the same across different conversation, as is often not the case when interrogating a three year old, we decided to inject a current political topic into a conversation about getting married to see how she would respond. (more…)
