Friday, November 24, 2006

Missing the point a bit

At five years old, you can't really expect kids to understand a lot of the abstract, especially when it comes to something like religion. Being a Catholic school, the children recite the "Our Father" every day, and have now memorized the words. We also have a section of our room with different religious objects for the children to look at and explore. I watched two girls over in the corner one day, putting on the Rosary beads as a necklace, flipping through the books, and picking up two small crosses that were on the table. They turned around and saw me watching and told me in all seriousness, "These are our 'Tres-Passes".

These kids are used to the bathroom 'Passes' that they must take in order to use the restroom, and for all they knew, the prayer they said every day was about a different kind of pass - a "Tres-Pass".

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