I told my almost 7 years old daughter that phones used to be different than those she sees today.
The world is changing. Rapidly.
In fact, much more than a technological evolution, my children live in a very different world than the one I experienced as a child.
Yet, this has not always been the case. I think the time when a man’s life resembled that of his father. When a father taught his own occupation… When a father taught his son to be like … him.
We live in a world that is reinvented every day. A world in which occupations evolve, change, disappear, are reborn. We do not know what will happen tomorrow and even less in a year or two. So what can we teach our children? And how can we, in these conditions, ensure them a better future?
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My eldest daughter lost her first milk tooth. She’s almost 6 years old. Obviously, the mouse took the tooth…
Where does this story of the little mouse come from? And, what about the tradition of replacing the tooth with money?
Actually, the mouse is part of many countries folklore. The exchange tooth-Money ritual is probably Anglo-Saxon (The Fairy Tale of The Teeth of Lee Rogow, 1949). But the mouse origin is in France, in the 17th century under Louis XIV. Madame d’Aulnoy wrote the fairy-tale of the Good Little Mouse. This story is different from the story that we tell our children today. In that story the fairy turns into a mouse to help the gentle queen to defend herself against the evil king.
To punish the king, the little mouse hides under his pillow. At night, she devours the ears, nose and everything inside his mouth ! The story of the mouse as it is known now goes back to the early 20th century. In 1927, Esther Watkins Arnold published The Tooth Fairy, a character sketch in three acts for children. Then, in 1949, Lee Rogow published The Tooth Fairy, the first real story for children on the small mouse. This story was very popular in the 50’s. Since then, parents have adopted this little mouse that has become part of family life.
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My GPS seems to be a source of inspiration to my kids.
Example :
All the family is in the car and the traffic is heavy. The GPS is guiding us and we’ve just entered a tunnel.
GPS : “…Satellites connection lost”
Leora (my 2nd daughter, 3 1/2 year old): “Are we lost?”
Elya (my 1st daughter, 5 1/2 year old) : “No ! The GPS is lost”
Another one:
Elya : “How does Father Christmas finds the parents who have kids in order to bring the christmas gifts ? After all, there are parents that don’t have kids…”
Me : … silent …
Elya : “I know ! He has a GPS !”
A last one :
Me : “You know, there are shoes with GPS.”
Elya : “Really ?”
Me : “Yes ! look here, shoes with GPS”
Elya : “Wooooow, great … will they tell me where to go ?”
Me : “Not exactly. They will make me possible to find you, if you are lost”
Elya : “Hmm… so I shouldn’t go inside tunnels !”
Me : “Exactly !”
So smart …
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