"The Bunny doesn’t belong to us . . ."
"The Bunny doesn’t belong to us . . ."
Published 8.4.10 Cass Lake Times
By Allan Olson
In the world of raising kids it’s sometimes amazing as to what children understand and what they say.
A couple months ago I came home from work late and my littlest children had already been put in bed. So like most nights that I’m home late I go to their rooms and check on them.
I’m a firm believer in the fact that my children are perfect angels and very beautiful but only when they’re sleeping.
So I headed to my girls room expecting to find them fast asleep. Well I was half right. As I opened the door, to check on them I saw that my youngest daughter was done for the day and soundly sleeping. However, my oldest daughter, Abigail, was not even close.
For a change she was being quiet, as she is normally my free spirit and usually my loudest of the four children. I spotted her with her little hands resting on the bunk bed rail with her chin on them gazing out the window. She turned and saw me and said there is a bunny out there.
While I certainly believed her, I had to look for myself. So gingerly stepping over the toys scattered over the floor in the room as to not wake the sleeping child and not injure myself in the process I too spotted the little bunny outside her bedroom window.
“It doesn’t belong to us,” she said. I looked at her momentarily confused by her sentence. “The bunny doesn’t belong to us,” she said again.
Well who am I to argue with that matter-of-fact statement. It may have been in our yard, hopping amongst their toys but it certainly did not belong to us.
I’ve been a parent for over seven years and an uncle for over 14 and I still have a hard time figuring out where kids come up with their stuff.
I mean everyone knows that a bunny in the yard doesn’t belong to them (unless on the off chance they have a pet). But a statement like that with all sincerity from a soon to be 4 year old, is perplexing.
I don’t know about other parents, but I have a difficult time remembering which kids have what blanket, toy, etc. I rely either on my wife or the kids to keep me straight. So if a strange toy is in the yard they can tell me that it belongs to a kid next door or it’s actually a sibling's.
As parents we try hard to remind our children that they can’t take stuff that doesn’t belong to them, but never have we ever addressed that subject to include things of nature.
Still two months later her simple statement comes back to me. I’ve never heard her say that again, but every time I see a bunny cross our yard I think of that statement and shake my head and laugh.
As she and my other children grow up I hope that they will remember that somethings (like a bunny) just don’t belong to them.
So next time you see a bunny scurring across your yard, remember “it doesn’t belong to you.” Unless of course it’s your pet.
We welcome your comments and opinions so please drop us a line. Also for news stories/ideas please email us at cltimes1@arvig.net. Have a great week.
Published 8.4.10 Cass Lake Times
By Allan Olson
In the world of raising kids it’s sometimes amazing as to what children understand and what they say.
A couple months ago I came home from work late and my littlest children had already been put in bed. So like most nights that I’m home late I go to their rooms and check on them.
I’m a firm believer in the fact that my children are perfect angels and very beautiful but only when they’re sleeping.
So I headed to my girls room expecting to find them fast asleep. Well I was half right. As I opened the door, to check on them I saw that my youngest daughter was done for the day and soundly sleeping. However, my oldest daughter, Abigail, was not even close.
For a change she was being quiet, as she is normally my free spirit and usually my loudest of the four children. I spotted her with her little hands resting on the bunk bed rail with her chin on them gazing out the window. She turned and saw me and said there is a bunny out there.
While I certainly believed her, I had to look for myself. So gingerly stepping over the toys scattered over the floor in the room as to not wake the sleeping child and not injure myself in the process I too spotted the little bunny outside her bedroom window.
“It doesn’t belong to us,” she said. I looked at her momentarily confused by her sentence. “The bunny doesn’t belong to us,” she said again.
Well who am I to argue with that matter-of-fact statement. It may have been in our yard, hopping amongst their toys but it certainly did not belong to us.
I’ve been a parent for over seven years and an uncle for over 14 and I still have a hard time figuring out where kids come up with their stuff.
I mean everyone knows that a bunny in the yard doesn’t belong to them (unless on the off chance they have a pet). But a statement like that with all sincerity from a soon to be 4 year old, is perplexing.
I don’t know about other parents, but I have a difficult time remembering which kids have what blanket, toy, etc. I rely either on my wife or the kids to keep me straight. So if a strange toy is in the yard they can tell me that it belongs to a kid next door or it’s actually a sibling's.
As parents we try hard to remind our children that they can’t take stuff that doesn’t belong to them, but never have we ever addressed that subject to include things of nature.
Still two months later her simple statement comes back to me. I’ve never heard her say that again, but every time I see a bunny cross our yard I think of that statement and shake my head and laugh.
As she and my other children grow up I hope that they will remember that somethings (like a bunny) just don’t belong to them.
So next time you see a bunny scurring across your yard, remember “it doesn’t belong to you.” Unless of course it’s your pet.
We welcome your comments and opinions so please drop us a line. Also for news stories/ideas please email us at cltimes1@arvig.net. Have a great week.
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