Today I'm grateful for surviving the clowns. We took MacKenzie's to her first circus at the Nassau Colliseum. It was very fun and somehow vastly different than my memory of the circus. If you go early, you can visit with the animals and performers. Our girl loves elephants and we were able to get pretty close to them. We also got very close to the performers. This included the clowns.
I have had a hate/hate relationship with clowns for most of my life. I've had vivid recurring nightmares about clowns since I was little. It started way before I read "It" or wrote a paper at U of M on John Wayne Gacy. Although, neither of those helped. Not a big fan.
I have to say that the clowns today were pretty impressive and much less frightening. I was particularly impressed with how they made a point of not only bending down to get to MacKenzie on her level, but actually sat right down on the ground and invited her to approach them. It was a very welcoming and non-invasive approach. They were also much funkier and hipper clowns than I have ever seen. See wasn't drawn to them exactly, but she didn't run away either.
It was a good reminder to me about not passing down my fears to my daughter. It would be easy for me to tell her immediately about how scary I think clowns are. But, she deserves to have her own experience. Who knows, she might just love them and that would be really great for her. She'll have plenty of fears in her life, although I hope fewer than me.
Today, we survived the clowns. Hopefully my dreams will be clown-free tonight as well.
Until tomorrow...
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