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an alarm. I can pretty much guess
y children are just
what time it is without looking at
beginning to learn to
a clock.
tell time, and it is not
I also know that even if you
an easy process. We always get
have
been playing Barbies with
ituck on those all-important five-
your
children
for a mere 20 min-
: minute increments.
, utes it will actually be 200 hours
"So, when the little hand is on
— unless, like me, you liven
the 12 and the big hand is on
things up a bit and have the Bar-
the 5, it's five minutes after 1 2,
bies eaten by plastic dinosaurs.
right?" Yitz asks me.
Where I fall short is
"No," I say, and
understanding how it is
begin the whole expla-
that
my children are
ation again. "You
growing before my very
see, each of those
eyes, how time is
numbers marks five
swirling about them so
minutes ..."
fast it makes me dizzy.
A child's concept of
And
it's changing them,
time is so unlike that of
turning them into big
an adult's. A boy or
kids, then teens, then
girl understands about,
adults.
Yes, this is a
;Wand generally hates,
time that I do not know.
bedtime. My daughter knows she
I
read
once
that honey never
will spend 15 minutes each night
spoils, that archaeologists in
on her English homework, and
Egypt found honey in the
another 15 on her Hebrew read-
pharaohs' tombs and it was still
ing. My son loves a TV show
fresh.
Imagine, everything that
called "Little Bear," which he
happened in all those thousands
I :A) knows comes on sometime after
of
years — wars and kings and
breakfast. But they don't necessar-
queens and new countries and
ily eat at the generally recog-
medical discoveries'— and still
nized lunch hour, "It will only take
here was this honey, sweet and
you 10 minutes to clean up the
fresh,
never changing.
basement" means nothing to
This is how it is for a parent, I
them, and "We are leaving Dis-
think.
Time goes on, of course,
covery Zone because we have
and it alters everything. With your
4peen here for three hours" might
eyes you see that your children
as well be said in a foreign lan-
are growing and moving on
guage.
you're
happy because this is as it
I, on the other hand, am an
should be. But in your heart,
extremely schedule-oriented, time-
deep inside the dark tomb of your
: focused person. I hate being late
body, your sons and daughters
with anything from appoint-
are
always young, always yours.
ments to birthday cards. I have a
They are your honey, sweet and
Istist, and I must get everything on
fresh, never changing. ❑
it done. Life is tightly and neatly
organized. I should have been in
the military.
I'm good about measuring the
passage of time, too, though I
Elizabeth Applebaum
have yet to manage my husband's
AppleTree
Editor
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