The other day, my 6-year-old son came to me, crying and really upset. asking me for a plaster (band aid).
He had somehow gotten himself in a battle with his paper and pencil (judging by the mess on the table), some-how losing the battle with a tiny cut.
Knowing we had none in the draw, I decided to lift him high to the ceiling and asked him to point his "cut finger" out and within seconds, I had swirled his finger in the web, coating his finger, including the cut.
He was not impressed!
Upset and frantic over the web being on his finger, he starts screaming at the top of his lungs as if I had broken his finger.
"Take it off!!", "Take it off!!" he screamed while rubbing his hands, arms, elbows, all over my face, while the rest of his once mobile body went stiff as a rock.
Still in shock, his tear's flowed downs his upset face and my heart broke.
Placing him down, I wiped his tears then pulled him close, cradling him tightly while cooing my apologies in his ear in the hope's that I can soothe the hurt and fear I have just place in my son, and the guilt of me doing so.
It never ever, not once, occurred to me how my son would react to something like that especially for myself, as that was part of my upbringing.
Growing up. If you had cut yourself or stubbed your toes, you simply find a web, wrap it over the cut and way you go.
If your wound was bigger than a small cut, we would use an old sheet by ripping it into strips and wrap the wound. Nothing in our house was off limits when it came down to it. Everything was used for different purposes after their original use including spider webs and rags.
It worked when I was young. It worked when I was first starting out in life as an adult and to be honest, if I get a cut and I'm closer to a web than a band aid, then a web it is.
In the end my 6-year-old eventually calmed down and we talked about how spider webs are not just a spider's home or how they just catch bugs that could make us sick, which in turn, is the spider's food, however, a web also helps heal our cuts by sealing it. This keeps the water and dirt out while all the good things in our body heals the cut.
He understands now and is really fascinated with insects, but as for a web being his plaster, that is still and forever will be, in-definitely, a NO GO ha!
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