Sharing

My little man isn't so little anymore. Just having conversations with him blow my mind. He is like a sponge and has absorbed so much information. It amazes me how much he knows about life, trains, construction, cars, and the solar system. I attribute this mostly to books. Once he hears something, he retains that information, asks questions and then explains it back to you.

The other day I was watching Quints by Surprise on TLC. The family lives in Central Texas and were evacuated late this summer due to the Texas Wildfires. Their neighborhood lost several homes. As a family, they drove around the neighborhood to show teach their kids about fires.

Mason started asking a lot of questions. I explained that one of the families had a little girl that no longer had a home to go to each day when she got home from school. That she lost all of her toys, clothes and food. Mason took it all in and was on the verge of tears when he said how sad it was. Then he proceeded to tell me that we should give them some food and share what we have with them. It warmed my heart to hear the compassion in his voice.

I've been trying to teach the kids about sharing and giving to others, especially those who don't have much. Our kids have been blessed with a ton of toys. I like to go through them regularly and clean out the toys that they no longer play with. During this process, I've tried to explain that there are boys and girls that don't have any toy and that maybe we should share with them some of their toys. He gave it some thought and said maybe we should keep the toys and invite the kids over to play with his toys because they probably needed a friend more than they needed new toys. Amazing how a child's mind works.