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- From: cconell@reed.edu (Carol Conell)
- Subject: Things They Say (nearly 5) or possibly what's the word?
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- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:45:35 GMT
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- This was more accurately a puzzling than a cute thing.
- This evening while we were cuddling, my daughter suddenly said
- "Nothing is real!"
- To which I, of course, replied, ---'oh'.
- She then proceeded to explain. Tapping on the wall--this isn't
- real--someone made it. And so on, about various objects--at
- which point I thought I knew what was going on and was about to
- speak when she said
- "We aren't real."
- At which I again said, ...oh.
- So she explained that "God made us."
- And then proceeded to pick up a book and detail how
- "of course it isn't real, somebody made it."
- I assume there's a word--surely not "real" for what she was
- describing and would love to have it to offer next time this
- comes up. But what is it?
- Am also curious about whether this is a common response to learning
- about God that others experience in their similarly aged children.--Carol
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- Carol Conell; Sociology; Reed College; Portland, OR 97202 (503) 771-1112
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