samantha

Today and yesterday I took care of my friends’ 10 year old kid. It was a new step in our relationship since I never took care of their kid before. I’m happy they were able to trust me and me and the kid had a good time. Glad I could give the parents some them time. 

We did a lot of shopping yesterday and I got to use up my Sephora points to get them something so their mom didn’t have to spend any money. And we got smoothies and fries. Today we went thrifting, swimming and got bubble tea.

Kid is in bed now sound asleep, I let them stay up 30min past their bedtime. 

I was able to reflect on my values which was great. As an adult I feel like I know most adulting things like exchange rates, taxes, the “value” of most things. But explaining all these things to a 10 year old kid was interesting.

As my friend Richard says “You don’t rear children, you rear yourself”.

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I’m of the same mindset and never talk down to kids just because they’re younger. This space is convoluted enough that grown adults can barely understand aspects of it, so its less of an age thing and more of: how can you make sense of things that are steeped in a Tower of Babel?”

Like an adult! 10 year olds are pretty smart. She asks the right questions. 

There are a lot of appropriate contexts in which to treat children like children. But for the most part when they ask earnest questions about the world, I will tell them everything. Maybe she won’t understand it immediately but she’ll get it later.