The Amish: I may not agree but I certainly understand

Good Morning Moms! I am not Amish and while I do not agree with some of the ways of the Amish, I can certainly understand why they have set themselves apart from the rest of the world. While giving my son a bath last night, a discovery was made: 3 long welps on the back of his neck. How did I discover these marks? By a loud scream from my son as I was wiping his neck with a soapy washcloth. It stung. I did some investigating and found out that a boy at his preschool "was trying to tear [him] apart." Apparently, my son told the little boy he wasn't his friend (why he said this I am not quite sure) and then the little boy started to fight him. I called the school a little while ago and his teacher told me that she did notice this other little boy pulling on his shirt and my son saying "Stop."

Now I know there are a lot of gaps and holes in this story but I will not focus on those in this blog (since I will be addressing them in real life with the Director of the school). What immediately came to my mind was the Amish culture. They set themselves apart from the rest of the world so they can all be of one mind and raise their children in an environment where the same teaching and rearing is going on. Say what you will but when you have to leave your impressionable preschooler in a school with other children who are being taught the same values and life is not being modeled in the same manner as what your child sees, you begin to look differently at that way of living.

I don't know if I made much sense but gosh, I am wondering about all this "train up a child in the way they should go" business in today's world. We may rear our children in a proper well-behaved way but that doesn't mean that other children are being brought up the same way. I trust that the Angels are protecting and watching.

Blessings,
Aurellia