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How Do You Raise a Daughter
By asking questions and listening?
Rest assured, I did have picture-perfect moments like this with my daughter.
However, by age three, through keen observation and logic, my daughter deduced Santa did not exist. She spent the next four years humoring her naive parents and younger brother. And bless her compassionate heart, she would yell at anyone who teased a child who still believed in Santa.
After the festival of Lesson & Carols at our Episcopal church, she put the priest in the hot seat with this question. “What about Jesus’s sisters?”
His answer was awesome. “Our translation of the Bible, the King James, doesn’t mention his sisters, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. Archeologists keep finding new Dead Sea scrolls. We now know that the original texts were heavily edited when they were translated into other languages.”
Did that answer satisfy a seven-year-old? Hardly, but she had other resources that she could look into.
Don’t call her a Feminist, though.
If you call her a feminist, be ready for a debate. You will lose — badly.
She believes in herself and calls people on their bad behavior. Even if her job depends on it, she will not back down.
