Bridgette's Westpark Home Child Care

A good reminder. ❤️

I watched my child step out the back door to play and my first instinct was to tell him to put his shoes and coat on. Instead, I let him splash in the muddy water and play until his feet were coated. He came back in with muddy feet and a smile on his face. As I held him that night, I told myself I should brush his teeth, give him a bath, change him and put him in his own bed. Instead, I let him fall asleep on my shoulder and put him in bed with those same dirty feet. How many times in his life had I pleaded with him at night? How many times had he fallen asleep in tears because I insisted he needed a bath when he was overtired after a fun day? I learned a valuable lesson that day – you can wash feet and sheets in the morning but you can never get those moments back.

Spend some time this weeken on the floor, playing!

via becoming minimalist

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We're their main example in life. Always good to bear that in mind. ~MV

absolutely!

As grown-ups, we often approach children with ideas about what we can teach them about this life to which they have so recently arrived. It’s true that we have important information to convey, but children are here to teach us just as much as we are here to teach them. They are so new to the world and far less burdened with preconceived notions about the people, situations, and objects they encounter. They do not avoid people on the basis of appearance, nor do they regard shoes as having only one function. They can be fascinated for half an hour with a pot and a lid, and they are utterly unself-conscious in their emotional expressions. They live their lives fully immersed in the present moment, seeing everything with the open-mindedness born of unknowing. This enables them to inhabit a state of spontaneity, curiosity, and pure excitement about the world that we, as adults, have a hard time accessing. Yet almost every spiritual path calls us to rediscover this way of seeing. In this sense, children are truly our gurus. [MORE] https://bit.ly/2LbY4lC

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