Aidan is very proud of being brown. I'm not talking about just his last name, but his skin color. He is known to only choose brown people for his sport teams on Playstation. He has always colored himself with brown skin, as you can see in the picture above. He's proud and I'm happy about that. I want them to be happy about who they are, but not to identify themselves by only their skin color. A couple of days ago, Aidan came home from school and told me that he saw a dog on his way home. The dog didn't like him because he had brown skin. Huh? He was positive that the dog wouldn't go to him because of his skin color. Supposedly the dog went to Tristan but not Aidan. I'm not sure how he came to this conclusion. I was going to explain to him that dogs can't see color, only black and white but that explanation didn't make much sense.
This weekend Aidan asked Josh why only brown people went to jail? I'm so glad that Josh got that question and not me.
2 comments:
Wow. Good for him for exploring this though. :)
Also, I've read alot about dogs and colorblindness and they can see some colors, just not all of them as they only have 3 cones. (like blue and green look white) So if you tell him they are colorblind, he may learn differently and feel strange about it. I would tell him it could have been anything, even size, smell, or actions. Dogs are silly like that. :)
I love this pic by the way. He did a great job and it shows how friendly of a kiddo he is. :)
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