I'm listening to my husband having a long chat with his oldest nephew. They're quite alike in some ways. Fernando often gets frustrated with me for speaking off the cuff without thoroughly thinking through what I'm going to say before saying it--and we found out his nephew does the same thing. Think it all through, then speak. (Not sure the nephew's age, but he's a preteen.)
They're reading The Hobbit and The Maze Runner together. The conversation started off with Tolkien, then moved on to the n-word, slavery and the confederate flag.
Then Fernando spoke to him about empathy. How it's easy to hurt people's feelings; but to be good you need to have empathy and learn how to listen and how to speak.
They just touched on Hitler. Living in a police state.
The overarching theme seems to be: Read books, cause they will teach you all these important things you need to know.
Now he's teaching him that he's privileged. lol
I'm often quite proud of him, this person I married.
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