When the little boys were in kindergarten there was a serious
holiday issue we needed to discuss immediately after school one day. There was
an offense and it was unfair and mean and not to be tolerated. They sat on the
couch with me and told me with the most serious little faces that Rudolf wasn’t
allowed to play any reindeer games. That the other reindeer made fun of him and
called him names and it’s wrong to call names because name-calling hurts and he
was different and that people with differences can’t help it that they are
different and that God loves them and so should we. I listened to them and let
them get it all out and then I told them that I had heard of Rudolf’s unfair
treatment by the other reindeer, of his suffering and that I, too, was appalled
but that Santa had made everything right because he is a good and fair man and
that Rudolf enjoys the full rights and privileges of the other non-nose-glowing
reindeer. That we do indeed accept those with differences and that I was very
proud of them for coming to me to report malevolent and wrong behavior. God
help anyone who mistreats them or any of their friends, it will not be
tolerated and rightly so. This from five year-olds.
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