Note: I put this in the parenting thread as I feel this is an issue parents can relate to and help with, even though I am talking about my sibling. My sister has been incredibly ignorant lately. Yesterday, she noticed I was wearing a garnet anklet and asked why. My mom said “because she needs to become more grounded”, which was entirely correct. My sister replied “oh, that’s stupid.” And a few days ago, we were talking about Stephen Hawking. She asked why he was in a wheelchair that had a computer to talk for him. I explained to her that he had Gehrig’s disease and that he was unable to walk and talk without such assistance. Her response? “Well then what does he do?” In the most disgusting, condescending tone I’ve heard out of a child. Where did I go wrong? How did a house of good vibes result in this sort of negative behavior?
Sounds like a 10 year old. Let her parents parent. You can model. And it's ALS. He's the longest lived patient iirc. An easy answer for what does he do is "explains and theorizes the entire universe."
Or, he's really good at math. Seems like she is just entering another stage of that independent thing and needs to be different to see if she is. They all depart and "go all over" and typically come back to what was in their beginning. In your case, "house of good vibes". Let us by all means and for the sake of the saints preserve the liberty of little girls to be full of airs and sassy! (to a certain extent.... ) it's their version of taking everything in the house apart to see how it works and attempting to do things with tools. You always get the good ones on a thought. Usually about who they are or who they think they want to be. You'll always have that on her so you must be fair, patient and t-top-taller because little girls play superhero, princess and nurse even usually more than they play snobbity zsa zsa gabor and cruella d'evil - ahahaha! Normal. Fine. Stay close. Ps - If I'm not clear out of touch next is jackie onassis period of righteous power lady which is a break and a chance before no-u-r-not-janis joplin wars....best wishes there and hopefully you have a private hippie school, magnet or one that caters to their strengths and aptitudes. When they are going through the early teen years providing them with as much fulfillment in what they are helps combat them wandering off so much into what they aren't and shorter excursions hopefully when they do ~
Kids are very curious but they seem to start to write off things they don't understand when they start to feel smarter. With my sister I always knew it was because she was getting smarter and boy did she know it! If she didn't get it, it was stupid. My parents enjoy talking so they always simplified and explained. If she repeated the ignorance later on, they would simply repeat the entire explanation. Sometimes people just don't grasp things because they're completely happy in their own knowledge of how the world works, it's not just kids haha.
I concur with that too. I had my "thought you guys were gonna be back by midnight?" "Oh but the show wasn't over yet so we finished it" thing as a ritual for at least five years between 'em. In fact, if they showed up early is what made me wonder....
Hmm, sounds like she is being rational and logical, yet you call her "ignorant" because she thinks pseudo scientific baloney "is stupid" let me clue you in, she's not the ignorant one in the household
