What have your kids said about the book? You have a 15-year-old, a daughter who's 13 and another son who's ten. Nor do we have a right to label them that way. That does not mean it's a full-on character defect of them. There's things people do in certain circumstances or situations. And so that's an example across the board that we have to watch labeling people. But, boy, there was no coming back together when I labeled him as a liar. But you lied to me.' And then he was able to go, 'Okay, you're talking about that specific event. Why did you lie to just lie to me? That person, when you tell someone, which I later went to this friend and said, 'Hey, sorry about calling you a liar. And what I learned from that was, oh, don't ever label someone if they did something one time. We were not going to lead to him saying, 'I'm sorry. And he was overcome with guilt and frustration and confusion and then anger. And I saw him get completely defensive – like I had just cast a nasty character trait across his whole being. That's a really cool one that I learned when I was about ten. Just because I lie doesn't mean I'm a liar. And I had the same conversation with my kids. I mean, well, that's the idea that these will be a conversation. Because those are kind of grown-up themes that I had to try and explain to a nine-year-old. One was, 'Just because I lied doesn't mean that I'm a liar.' And the other one was, 'Just because I did it again doesn't mean I don't regret it.' I had to really think about that. She had a lot of questions, but there were two things in particular. Just because takes away a lot of judgment and shows you the paradox of living.īefore I opened the book, I had my granddaughter read it by herself.
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If thine eye is single, thy whole body will be full of light. It really is an inspiration from a favorite verse of mine from the Bible – Mathew 6:22. It's just saying just because it's one thing doesn't mean it can't be another. It's showing all the contradictions that we all have with ourselves, with each other and understanding human relationships.
But I think all the couplets in this piece, Just Because, it's saying there's not one absolute, basically. But I just wanted to remind the kid in all of us that 'because you can' can still be a good reason to do something. But we ask ourselves, we consider, well, I know I can. And we start to measure our decisions, not based on just if we can. We grow older and we get a little more mature. Matthew McConaughey: Just because when we're young, we like to do things because we can, even if we don't want to or need to. "Does it mean that that has to affect your whole day or your whole mood?"Ī condensed version of A Martinez's interview with Matthew McConaughey follows. "You know, this throwing shade, or trolling, or negative response or comment on something you thought was cool, or true, doesn't mean that it steals your joy," McConaughey told A Martinez. And just because they shut me down doesn't mean I have not won," he writes in Just Because. "Just because you threw shade doesn't mean that I'm out of the sun. In an interview with Morning Edition, he said that while it's a picture book, his couplets are designed to spark conversation between readers young and old, like they have for his own family. And he explores this topic in his new children's book, Just Because. He has a sense of the day-to-day social pressures his kids can experience. McConaughey is the father of a 15-year-old, 13-year-old and 10-year-old. And he wants his own kids not to be in a hurry to grow up too soon. But now at 53 years old, he wishes he hadn't been that way. Choose from over 710+ Bible verse topics.When he was a kid, actor Matthew McConaughey remembers always wanting to be older. Searching for the most powerful Bible verses? We offer beautiful, inspirational Bible verse pictures and images by topic.
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