Observations of a Seven Year Old

This blog is about something I have not talked about in some time, but it came up in a conversation with Zeke the other day and I thought it was interesting enough to share. In this world today people seem overly ready to expose young children to things way beyond their years (sex education etc. . .). However, at the same time they seem reluctant to believe or understand the capabilities of younger children to understand, in their own way, very complex issues. My ex husband has all but removed himself from the boy's lives. He managed to get them both birthday cards about a month late, and Christmas was only 2 weeks late. He has spoken to them over the phone less than one hour total since we moved away last July. He has taken them to see his mother (their maternal grandmother) ZERO times in the past 5 years. We have not heard from him since the second week of January. The boys are not bothered by his lack of communication and never ask to call him and are not exactly excited when they have to go spend time with him. About the only way he comes up in conversation is in passing statements made by Zeke. Most of those statements usually start with "Another thing I don't like about our fathers . . . ." "Our father makes us do . . . and I don't like that" "Our father cooked this . . .and it was awful but he thought it was great". So, the other day when Zeke started a conversation with me "You know what's weird about our father Mom?" HAHAHAHAHA Now I could have said Quite a few things here. I even felt like letting out a huge laugh, but I contained myself and said "No, what?" So he says, "Don't you think it is weird that every time we go to his house he has a new girlfriend, and they are already planning to get married?" So I told him yes that is a bit different and most people don't go through that many relationships that quickly, and they definitely don't make decisions to get married that quickly. He though about this for a few minutes and then said. "Yeah, and then after a couple of weeks the girl gets mad at him and they don't talk anymore so they don't get married." Yep, I said that is a little strange. End of conversation. You would think if a SEVEN year old can figure out what your doing isn't quite normal that you (a 36 year old) could figure it out too. HMMM. I am constantly amazed at the connections that Ezekiel makes.