Re "Maya asked what jealousy was . . .": That's a nice story. And good for her. But bear in mind that envy occurs when we lack something someone else has. (Kids can feel that.)
Jealousy occurs when something we possess (a special relationship usually) is threatened by a third person. A child in a secure family is unlikely to have that emotion unless they feel insecure about a sibling. Jealousy will kick in when adolescence does! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : ...happened for me the other night, sitting around the polyamory dinner table. It was just the normal family at the table -- Maya, Mommy, Daddy, Mama, and Uncle Barry. And it was just a normal family dinner until Maya asked what jealousy was. The word and the subject had come up in school, and she was wondering what the term meant, and why people get jealous. We spent over five minutes trying to explain it to her, but in the end we could tell that she didn't get it. She'd never seen it before, at least at home, so she was having difficulty with the whole concept. Good for her.
