entrenched ideas

[Martin S]

Was with friends at a family party this weekend (not my family), kilted a usual. Few comments. But a 5-6-year-old showed how well her thinking had been preconditioned by asking me why I was wearing a skirt. I felt she was too young for the word "kilt" to have any meaning for her, so asked in my turn why she -- and her mum -- were wearing trousers.
Blank look.
"But why are you wearing a skirt?" she went on.
"Well I'd be cold wihtout one," I said.
"But you're a boy."
"Yes, I said. That's why I don't want to dress like you and you mum."
But her brain had been so well washed, that she remained quite unconvinced.
Children speak aloud what adults think quietly.

Martin

[Kilted KT]

Looks like we need to start the education process sooner...

anyone know any kilted children's book artists?

[RockyR]

Title: "So your DADDY is going to wear the kilt"

[switchblade5984]

hahaha good one rocky!

5-6 their minds are sponges and could always use a little edjamacation!

i say tell her its a kilt... but thats just my Opinion

[Kilted KT]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

[davedove]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

I seem to recall Grover wearing a kilt sometime. Maybe we should start a letter writing campaign to get a kilted muppet.

[arrogcow]

I wonder how many episodes of Sesame Street feature guys in kilts?


I'll see if I can find it...

Elmo has been kilted.

And there was a receint episode that had a piper (kilted generic muppet w/accent) who left his pipes and telly, Zoe and Baby Bear were trying to figure out what they were.

Adam

[morrison]

... ... ... Children speak aloud what adults think quietly. Martin

We as adults carry it so very far by teaching our children little or nothing about looking past perceived boundaries. We seem to miss the opportunities to show our progeny that jumping out of the box may be acceptable, that thinking outside the prescribed thoughts is not unlawfull. Worst of all, we don't show our youth the way to form their own conclusions through thinking, experimentation and study and research for information gathering.

[Chef]

I must admit though that one of my happiest kilt moments was when I heard a child in Trenton, NJ, not more than eight mind you, say, "Mom, Mom, look there is a man in a kilt". I thought there is hope.

[Andrewson]

I must admit though that one of my happiest kilt moments was when I heard a child in Trenton, NJ, not more than eight mind you, say, "Mom, Mom, look there is a man in a kilt". I thought there is hope.

... and one of my recent happy moments was when a four-year-old boy saw me coming towards him in the street and said to his Mum "That man's wearing a kilt like Archie on Balamory" For those outside the UK, Balamory is a childrens' TV show set in Tobermory in Scotland and one of the characters, Archie the Inventor, always wears a kilt. Judging by the happy smiles on both the boy's and his mother's faces, that boy clearly now takes the whole idea of a man wearing a kilt as a perfectly normal thing. That may be due to the fact that in the show nobody makes Archie's form of dress an issue at all. It just isn't talked about. That is just as it should be. But, as Martin's experience shows, it is not like that often enough (yet?) and the brain washing continues.