How to Do Battle Against Your Goliaths

My firstborn was about three year old when we took him for his first visit to the zoo.�� We drove hours to get there and I was so excited to introduce him to exotic and rare animals of all sorts.�� And that is precisely when I learned that the zoo is not really for 3 year olds.

Of course he enjoyed it – the animals, the food, who wouldn���t?�� He named all of the animals he saw in books we had read, we rode the train and purchased a token souvenir, but there was a certain thrill, an awe and appreciation a three year old doesn���t quite grasp��yet.�� For all he knew elephants and tigers (and maybe even unicorns) lived down the street from us in Washington state.

He did not yet know enough to truly appreciate what it was he was seeing.

It was in that knowing that my 8 year old daughter approached me the other day with a few questions about David and Goliath.�� The familiar story that had been read and recounted to her countless times was now taking on a new shape and meaning.

Was Goliath really as tall as the ceiling, mom?

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