I was with my two grandchildren and the four year old girl was singing a song. Her brother, age 6, said to her, "Stop singing that song!" She said, of course, "No, I want to sing this song." He said, "It’s not real. You made it up." She said, "It is real, I made it up and I am singing it."
What a human delimma. My husband and I sided with our granddaughter that indeed it was real. Even if only one person knows the song, she has every right to sing.
Our grandson was stuck in the notion that you call a song something that many people know and acknowledge as a song. After all, no one else could ever sing the song if she forgot it!
Wow-where does THE TRUTH lie? In my new book, The Truth, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything, the girl has a song that only she knows. It it becomes very important to her as she gets older. And it is a problem that only she knows the song! I will keep a little mystery around what happens.
So what do you think? What makes something real?
All my best, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist, www.enchantedself.com
