The unfiltered concern of a child
One of the bains of the past week is that I've become a news junkie. It is permanently on in our home. I feel that I should be watching the unfolding events in the Gulf Coast and to not watch, to not be aware, would somehow be uncaring.
Of course I'm wrong, but that doesn't stop me.
The issue at hand though, is how much do you expose a two year old child to? Julian is around the house and becoming more aware of the fact that information is arriving via the television set. Do you not watch? I think not. I guess that I trust the mainstream news media not to air any images that would be too shocking to a child.
But this evening as I was watching the coverage, and Julian was playing his usual jump on the couch, fall over on dad games, and loving the footage of helicopters flying around, images appeared of children in diapers walking ankle deep in water.
He stood up and turned to me, with the questioning expression he uses when he wants me to fix something and said:
"Baby crying?"
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oh, how sad.