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Confirmation: Saying Yes
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Is it true that all we really needed to know, we learned in kindergarten, as fellow author Robert Fulghum put it? For this is when ground rules for life are being established, such as playing fair and many other things up to the biggest advice of all. It is: “Look!”
The first school day, in turn, is one of those milestones in life that is eagerly awaited, celebrated with a school goody bag a.k.a. “Schultüte,” and still there is this queasy feeling in the stomach asking: “Will I do everything right?” Right next to the classroom we’d detect a disclaimer saying: “If you promise not to believe everything your child tells from school, we promise not to believe everything it tells from home!” A few weeks into primary school, our boy revealed: “We are learning zero!” He then clarified that they had been talking about numbers in maths.
“Can you confirm, please,” is a question asked many times to ensure mutual understanding and to drive responsibility. On the other weekend, we assembled for our daughter’s confirmation at church. It was a time to say yes to the baptism decision that the parents had taken on behalf of their newborn child, no more and no less than a milestone toward adult life.
Continue reading in the book “SO LONG – Encouraging Messages for Change Sceptics.”
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