a quality observed
When you have a kid, people use certain predictable words to describe that kid. When it's a girl, you often hear "pretty" or "cute" or "precious."
Just the other day, we met a girl in her 20s who works with kids aged five and under at a program at the zoo, and she used a word to describe Greta that stands out from all the generic ones. And it's one that several others have used too — in fact it's the only non-pretty non-precious adjective that more than one person has used for Greta.
She said, "Your daughter is fearless!"
Greta was right in the middle of doing something that I think of as a normal kid thing to do: running over to say hello to a cat, climbing up into a yard and tooting around, ducking under things and tumbling over things to try to get to the cat, as the cat itself was, with increasing desperation, trying to get away. But maybe not so normal after all, if so many have zeroed in on this emerging personality characteristic. Is Greta fearless? What a mystery we all are, as we emerge into human beings.
Just the other day, we met a girl in her 20s who works with kids aged five and under at a program at the zoo, and she used a word to describe Greta that stands out from all the generic ones. And it's one that several others have used too — in fact it's the only non-pretty non-precious adjective that more than one person has used for Greta.
She said, "Your daughter is fearless!"
Greta was right in the middle of doing something that I think of as a normal kid thing to do: running over to say hello to a cat, climbing up into a yard and tooting around, ducking under things and tumbling over things to try to get to the cat, as the cat itself was, with increasing desperation, trying to get away. But maybe not so normal after all, if so many have zeroed in on this emerging personality characteristic. Is Greta fearless? What a mystery we all are, as we emerge into human beings.
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