it’s really true that everything you need to know you learned in pre-school. w/ only three days left at pre-school b/f kindergarten, i find myself a little sad. we have been extremely happy w/ this one, and it is our third, since we move a lot…but i didn’t realize just how much the Kid had learned there, until recently…
people touching my face is a huge pet peeve of mine…i just don’t like it…seriously…i don’t know where your fingers have been…keep ‘em off my friggin face! i had to remind the Kid of this (again) the other night, and she responded w/ “oh yeah! my teacher says ‘my face my space’!” i told her i thought that was a wonderful rule…but then she said, “she also told me ‘my body my business’”.
my mind blew…seriously.
that might be THE most important thing that i would want my daughter to learn. it is so simple…and it sounds as such sounding off in her sweet voice…(and soon she was dancing around singing it at the top of her lungs)…and i know that it is meant to keep kids from invading each others space and keeping them safe…
but i can’t help thinking…
if PRE-SCHOOLERS can get it, whey can’t we? why can’t the freakin government step back a few years and remember this simple sentiment?
my body my business…
the youngest children can understand that they should never do things to other people’s bodies…they know that each of us is responsible for our own being…they are taught from the earliest years to mind themselves, to not allow others to invade the most basic thing that is their own…
but our lawmakers can’t seem to wrap their heads around that…
my body my business…
if there is one thing i can hope for my daughter’s future it is that it will be one where she can retain those values from her innocence…where she will be able to make those choices about her own body…about her own life…about what she is ready for and what will make her happy…that she will never have to let anyone tell her what to do w/ that body…that noone will ever invade or violate it…that noone will make laws that force her to be a mother before she is ready…i had that choice…i chose her…but that in no way means that i think everyone will always be ready if it happens to her or him.
how the hell does our government know?
my body my business…
i want her to have choices to protect that body…to pursue what makes her happy…and not to feel guilt or shame for those choices…when my daughter makes choices about life and sexuality i want them to be informed and responsible…i want to have confidence that she can walk into a doctor’s office and be supported in those choices…i want to know that she will be given all the facts…in my home and beyond…free of the restrictions of other people’s religious beliefs…
my body my business…
those of us who are pro-choice are just that…we want CHOICES…what we want allows other people w/ different creeds and beliefs from our own to keep their choices…they can simply choose not to do it…what that anti-choicers are after doesn’t make that same promise…we are not forcing any procedure or belief on anyone…we are not mindlessly killing or preventing people from their freedom…we are not shaming anyone into anything w/ guilt or fear of divine retribution…we are not forcing anyone to seek an illegal way to achieve the same purpose that they could get safely if we let choices reign…we are not preying on the young and w/holding truths from them and sending them into a world w/ half the information…
we want to keep it basic…
my body my business…
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