Adam came home from school today and started acting out...this is a little unusual for him believe it or not. I asked him why he was writing on the table and not paper and he broke down into tears. When I finished my we don't write on the table speech I asked him to explain to me why he was so upset.
Apparently there are students on the bus and in his classroom that don't share in Adam's true love for dinosaurs. Adam truly has a passion for them and loves to not only play with his dinosaur toys, but he reads books on them and reads articles in the paper and his favorite museum is the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum. Adam has shared his dream to bring dinosaurs back to life and let them be nice. He has even gone as far as thinking that meat eaters would be harmful so he would train them not to eat meat so that they would be nice too! The kids that he was sharing his thoughts with told him it was impossible. Of course he is crushed and really, who wouldn't be!
I asked him if he believed he could bring them back to life. This was the first time his answer wasn't yes. He said "I really don't know." I asked him if he still wanted to try and he luckily said yes. As a mom are you supposed to tell him the truth of the matter or are you supposed to encourage a dream that most likely will never be? In my heart of hearts I want to do the latter, but I don't want it to come back in bite me 20 years down the road.
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