Kids and Confidence

Lately I have been focusing on the kids in my blog. Well what can I say, I am on a role. Plus I noticed it keeps the spammers off of here. Yeah! Not to mention that this is primarily what my blog is about anyway. So there!

Sometimes as parents we worry about how much confidence kids have and if they are really ready to tackle the world. Well fortunately we don't have to worry about our oldest, he thinks he is smarter and stronger than everyone else, including his Abba and when asked what he wants to be when he grows up, "A Melech Yehudi" A Jewish King. Apparently he is not too picky about which country though. But since he likes living in Israel, I think that is what he is aiming for. Perhaps when he was little he listened to his Aunt talk too much about if she ruled the world!

Or perhaps it is our constant talk of politics at the table. We have found S trying to discuss politics at school! Oy Vey! And has said some not so nice things about current politicians in other countries and their connection to Israel. (For those of you old enough to get this, all I can think is Alex P. Keaton, of course so was his Abba.) Mental note, no more discussing politics at the dinner table. Seriously, since S has learned to spell and has ears like a bat, we have had to watch everything we say and forget spelling it. I am considering teaching D Japanese. It is the only language we can come up with that the kids won't have a connection to. They speak better Hebrew than me, they will no doubt pick up Yiddish from friends, it is a strong language here and they are also learning some in school, ( plus there are kids who learn Yiddish first here then Hebrew) which also leaves German out, because Yiddish is a mix of German and Hebrew. So we are moving on to Japanese.

I love having smart kids, I just wish I wasn't being this outsmarted at age 7 and down! On the other hand I have discovered that the kids are teaching me plenty and perhaps that is why we have kids, so we are humbled and realize no matter how old we are there is still plenty left to learn. Besides I always wanted to get back into Japanese, I guess now is good.....