perspective

when Noah was really little he wanted to do everything by himself.  He always wanted to butter his own bread but there was no way i was letting him hold a butter knife since it would probably end up in someones eye or something.  Instead, i gave him one of those little cheese spread knives with the very rounded edge and let him go to town buttering his bread.  I would even call it a butter knife.  eventually he got old enough to use a real butter knife but i just called it a knife.  Well, to this day, when Noah wants to spread butter on something, he wants the "cheese knife".  These are just things that moms know.  Last night, Noah asked Allen to hand him a Butter knife and Allen handed him a REAL butter knife.  Noah started arguing telling his dad that was not a butter knife.  Allen, of course knowing that is IS a butter knife, told him that is what it was.  Of course they were both convinced that what they were saying was correct and I had to laugh because i knew they were both right. 

If you think about it from their perspective, they were both right in their little world.  I often think how quick WE are to judge someone else without knowing all the facts.  Maybe we need to just step back, ask questions, and look at the whole picture.  Just think how many arguments could be prevented if we did this. 

I just hope Noah doesn't figure out we have been giving him a butter knife to cut his steak.  hehe