{"id":3826,"date":"2011-05-06T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:44:03","slug":"om-life-boys-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-life-boys-bad-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"OM Life With Boys :: The Bad Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you have young children, you may have struggled with how to explain the death of Osama Bin Laden to them.
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\nThe morning after he was killed, our TV was set to the news coverage. The boys knew this was unusual because the television is rarely on in the mornings. “Whose that guy?” my five-year-old asked. Great question, little man.
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\nI hesitated. These moments and answers can define how we think about things as adults. I remember some of the answers my parent’s gave me to life’s big questions that stayed with me. And some of them were just… weird. I don’t want to say wrong, because I’m not sure what the circumstances were when they gave me the answers. Maybe I asked a difficult question while my mother was cooking or washing dishes. My little girl self must have had the same radar my boys do — the louder it is and the more distracted I am seems to be the time to ask a question.
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\nI was not distracted for this conversation, however. My answer was as honest and simple as I could make it. He seemed to understand or, at least, accept what I was saying.
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\nI don’t know if he’ll look back and remember this conversation, but I’m hopeful if he does, he won’t think I was being… weird.
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