Teach Your Kids to See the Beauty In Everything
Got arachnophobia? Here’s your worst nightmare an article from Gretel Kovach about spiders creating a community of webs, caught my attention. This is rare to see because most spiders are solitary trappers. They rarely team up and when they do it’s a wonderful sight to see. The park rangers said that they would keep an eye on the webs to protect the spiders from kids tearing them down with sticks.
The article made me think about the values that we are teaching our kids. Many kids who are racists are this way because they learned it from their parents. My parents weren’t perfect, but they were able to see the beauty where many people saw ugliness.
My love of spiders comes from my father. When I was a kid I was scared of them, but he would always point them out and some little detail that he enjoyed. It rubbed off on me and now I do the same thing to my wife and when I have kids they will get the same treatment. That’s why I could never see myself as a kid taking a stick to a spider’s web when I know how hard they work to construct it. My father taught me to see their beauty.
We need to teach our kids to see the beauty in different races, diseases, mosquitoes and everything else that people are afraid of. When we teach our children to see the beauty in everything, it teaches them many lessons.
Compassion for everything.
Curiosity for everything.
Love for each other.
International Herald Tribune, Gretel C. Kovach writes:
“You’d have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole lot of food to make a web that big,” he said.
Whatever caused the vast web, the sight of it has inspired both awe and revulsion.
“It’s beautiful,” said the park’s superintendent, Donna Garde.
Freddie Gowin disagrees. It was Gowin, a maintenance worker at the park, who discovered the web this month when, taking advantage of some of the first dry weather, he mowed the area around the nature trail.
“I don’t think there’s anything pretty about it,” he said, though “it’s certainly unusual.”
Donna saw the beauty because she understood how difficult of a process the whole web system was. You should click on this link to check out the awesome photograph of the web of spider string. It’s just stunning. We need to teach our children the value that everything provides, no matter how big, small, or seemingly ugly it may appear. Underneath it all there is hidden beauty if we take the time to look.
When we open people’s eyes to the beauty that we see, we’ll be creating a kinder and gentler world that we want our children to grow up in, where everything is appreciated because it’s a part of life.
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Karl @ February 13, 2008