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Friday, January 13, 2012

A Teachable Moment


One day, I was at the store walking through the grocery section pushing my cart gathering things I had on my list. I was wearing my O2 and had my Marathon tank in the seat of my cart with the tubes coming up to the nasal cannula I was wearing.

I had been wearing this contraption for a couple of weeks by then, and have had fun telling the hubs that if anyone asks why I am wearing this, I would just say something like “Well, I cannot survive in your atmosphere without it.” Hahaha Funny joke, but the joke ends when I am facing this young child, a girl about 5 or 6 who is out shopping with her mom.

Now her mom just ignores me, purposely, but the child just looks at me and I saw her hand immediately go up to her own face and traced an imaginary line up her cheek right where my tubes lie on my face, all while never taking her eyes off my face. She never said a word, though she did tug at her mom to stop and look. Mom just kept walking, ignoring her and avoiding my eyes.

The question was, did mom not see it or did mom see me and decide not to explain to her daughter? Of all the people I have walked by; of all the people and children that have seen me and not “started” or reacted with a sudden stare, this one child that did, her mom just continued onward. It made me wonder if Mom might see it as confrontational (even though to me it wasn’t nor was it negative), but it is not for me to determine how Mom saw it.

I have been around children of all ages and for the most part find that they are curious and not scared unless someone has taught them to be scared. I took the child’s reaction as natural and curious and I did not feel that she was scared, or freaked out, in fact I felt as though it was a perfect moment for teaching.