RITES OF PASSAGE
Friday April 09th 2010, 1:33 pm
Filed under: pedagogy
Cammie, from Mom’s Material just sent me this wonderful story:
Just my son (Myles) and I were at home. We watched part of your video, until after the pocketknife segment. Then I told him I had something special for him. I showed him the pocketknife and said, “When Grandaddy was feeling well, before he went to the hospital, he gave me this pocketknife and told me he wanted you to have it when you were older. After watching the video and realizing you were old enough now, I want to give it to you. I still need to clean it up and sharpen it, we can do that this weekend and I will show you how to use it.”
It was a great moment for several reasons:
He got big tears in his eyes, cried a little because he missed my Dad, and we got to share some fun memories. (they were close)
He felt special, big and more responsible.
What can I say – it brought a tear to my eye as well. These moments of granting responsibility are a gift that we give to children, the knife is merely a symbol
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