Adam's clearly been listening to the lessons about Christmas at school. Here's the conversation we had over dinner last night.
- Mummy?
- Yes Darling?
- Is Baby Sam like Baby Jesus?
- Yes, he is. But Baby Sam has a different birthday to Baby Jesus.
- If Baby Sam is like Baby Jesus, then are you like Baby Jesus's mother, Mary?
- Err. I guess so (although clearly not a virgin or look good in blue, but lets gloss over those minor technical defects)
- So if you are like Baby Jesus's mother, then Daddy is like Baby Jesus's father.
- I guess you could say Daddy is like Joseph
- Daddy isn't like Joseph Mummy. Baby Jesus is the Son of God. Which means that Daddy is God.
- Errrr (Hmmmm how do you explain the paternity of Baby Jesus to a 5 year old? Most adults find it a tad confusing. But most of all, do not, ever, under any circumstance refer to Daddy as God. He doesn't need any encouragement) I think Daddy is probably more like Joseph. Do you want some more sausages?
That's a good one. Good luck with the next questions that come along
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Just say, "Look at those lovely shelves your dad managed to put up: of course he's like Joseph"
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I'm not particularly religious, so the thing I struggle with is trying to bring across my scepticism whilst not confusing things too much. "some people think" always seems like a cop-out sort of answer.
ReplyDeleteLove the line about daddy being God!!
/giggle
ReplyDeleteDid this all come about because you travelled by donkey to the hospital?
ReplyDeleteIt's terribly confusing isn't it. I remember the conversations we used to have with Amy - she went to a church of England school which were particularly brain-washing the kids. It used to drive me nuts.
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Ha, very good, as if these pesky Dads need any more bigging up!
ReplyDeleteFunny. Takes me back to the time the toddler Queenager was taken to a Catholic church in Florida one Christmas. Not being avid churchgoers, the whole thing was a bit new. There on the altar was a ten foor marble crucifix. She looked horrified and asked (loudly, of course) "Mommy, what are they DOING to that man?"
ReplyDeleteWe are starting to have these conversations too. A particular favourite is 'who made us?'. To which I started to reply something along the lines of 'well, some people think....' but Littleboy 2 interrupted with "No, the builders made us!"
ReplyDeleteI think you should just let him think Daddy is God. For a while at least!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Rosie, of course Daddy is God: as in "Oh God NOW what have you done!!!!"
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny. Don't you wish they'd stop trying to teach them these things at school? Earlier today my five year old said that King Herod was a baddie because he wanted to kill baby Jesus so he was going to cut off King Herod's head with his light sabre. Nice. I think you need to go with 'Daddy is God', raise their expectations!
ReplyDeleteLol, I think Daddy is God in our house too. I have given up trying to explain, I think they will fall in one day...
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm very pleased about is my children always referring to God as 'she'. Hurrah. And quite right too.
ReplyDeleteI sense Daddy had done some pre-conversation briefing on this one...
ReplyDeleteI'd like to point out that, with the weather as it is at the moment we dads can even walk on water!
ReplyDeleteVery funny. If you listen to my daughter, you'd be forgiven for thinking her daddy is god too.
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