Observed

So; Hannah and I went to dinner the other night with a friend / business associate of mine. This Gentleman is a genuinely good guy. A knowledgeable Engineer. He also happens to be a creationist. Somehow genetics got brought up, and he was talking about how it fits in with creationist theories. Now this guys is no pushover here… He actually helped create the creationist museum in Kentucky. I tried my best to be polite. He had some good points, even though some of the reasoning he was using had holes in it you could drive a truck though.

But all that is beside the point. What I observed was; Hannah held her tongue the whole conversation. While she was participating in the general conversation, she never said a word on this subject. And Oh, I KNOW she wanted to.

When we where in the car on the way home, I commented on her self control and her knowledge/intuition to know she should probably stay out of the conversation. “that was hard, I’ll tell you”. I bet it was. And it was NOT prompted by me. I never said a word to her. She just knew it probably was not the best time, even though I ventured in a little bit!

That was notable. I was impressed. But what prompted me to comment here was something she said on the way to school this morning. I had asked her about how she was doing on her German program. She has Rosetta Stone German. She has been working with it regularly, but I had not seen her on it in the last two days. She said “It’s addictive! I’ve tried to train myself to walk away from addictive things on the computer”. Are you kidding me? she is 14. And my 14y.o. knows to try and use some self control?

She is a better person than I.

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Posted on 27 September '12 by , under Friends, kids.

2 Comments to “Observed”

#1 Posted by momv (28.09.12 at 07:44 )

glad to hear that! good for her:)

#2 Posted by teri (13.10.12 at 05:58 )

one of my favorite arguments about creationism vs evolution is during ” Big Bang Theory” episode when Sheldon goes home to his mother in texas..his friends arrive trying to urge him back to his research in California..they ask what he’s gonna do in Texas.. he replies ” teach evolution theory to creationists” his mother says..”evolutionism is your opinion” sheldon replies ” no, it is fact” And his mother says ” yes, and that is your opinion!”

Interestingly during our recent trip to Rome Lars said to liv ..”we evolved from fish, and then God created all the buildings and trees”