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The following video is just a small glimpse of what it’s like for us when we venture out in public with the kids.  Basically, the kids are rock stars.  Everyone with a camera phone within a 100 yard radius immediately begins to take photos (what do they do with the photos?)

Some especially bold people try to grab them pick them up or pose them for their camera phone photo shoot.  (They don’t like that AT ALL!  fyi)

Take a look;

 
A Night At The Square from Steve Webel on Vimeo.

We are trying to help the kids navigate this very difficult situation.  It’s stressful for them to get so much attention, but it’s a reality of our life in China.  The only way to avoid it would be to make the kids into hermits and keep them in our house during normal waking hours.  (That’s not gonna fly!)

For now, the tactic is to try to always keep moving, never stop in any one place for very long.  With exceptionally ‘bold’ people, we might have a word or two with them about giving the kids their space.

I do have to say, by and large, most people here respect us and our kids immensely and treat us with nothing but extreme politeness and hospitality.  These people almost all have less than we do (worldly wealth wise), yet they would give us anything if they thought it would help.

It’s one of those realities we face because we live where we do.  Please remember our three kids (TCK’s) in your prayers, ask that this difficult cultural reality will be used as a positive in their lives and will not turn them off to the Chinese people.