Non-smoking pays off

Children are the future
We often hope and pray
That our children find the right way

How they think
How they act
How they handle things in life

Like adults they have two paths to chose
The one for good the other for bad

All we can do
Is give them love
And support

All we can do
Is make sure they know
How much we care

How they chose their paths
Would be their own choice

How they behave
Would be their own choice

Should they try drugs?
We can only ever be there
To pick up the pieces

Should they get hurt?
We can only ever comfort them
When they are in need

As Whitney us to say

I believe the children
Are our Future
Teach them well and
Let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty
They posses inside
Let the children's laughter
Remind us how we use to be

Food for thought don't you think!
Kaila George

Thank you God for
The children of mine
Who teach me things
That blow my mind.
They entertain themselves
In the funniest ways.
I pray that the innocence
They possess never goes away.
I pray they will
Grow up and be smart,
And I pray that they will never grow apart.
I pray that they will call home
Whenever they are near a phone.
I pray that they never feel alone.
I hope they turn to you
Through guidance and prayer
And know that you and their parents
Will always be there. #

Magazine I designed for Gingerbread preschool
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Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then
Spin me around til I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
Id play a song that would never, ever end
How Id love, love, love
To dance with my father again
When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way, I would run from her to him
Hed make me laugh just to comfort me
Then finally make me do just what my mama said
Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me
If I could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him
Id play a song that would never, ever end
Cause Id love, love, love
To dance with my father again
Sometimes Id listen outside her door
And Id hear how my mother cried for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me
I know Im praying for much too much
But could you send back the only man she loved
I know you don't do it usually
But dear Lord shes dying
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream

Morning South Africa:)

What challenges do you face as a mother or father and how do you overcome them?

Lets share our stories.

dear beautiful people

Am so sorry for being scarce,am writing exams now

thanks

Dear little Angel

I never got to hold you,
Or kiss your little head
Or watch you sleeping soundly,
All snuggled in your bed.

I can't count your tiny fingers,
Or you even smaller toes
I won't see your smile,
Or your cute little button nose.

You're gone too soon - we don't even know
If you're a girl or boy,
Our hearts are filled with sorrow
When they should be full of joy.

I know you are in heaven,
Where there is no pain or tears.
You'll never get hurt or sick,
In heaven there are no fears

And though I'm sad you're not here right now
For us to hold today
I know we'll hold you in our arms
When we're in heaven with you someday.

This poem shows how much we value our children.

Day by day, as you grow

There is something, I want you to know

I will be there for you, no matter what

For you are the one, I love a lot

As a mother, I will always be by your side

In your actions, I will always take pride

While you look forward to your life ahead

Just remember everything that I have said

I love you
Just a poem for oll the loved ones out there

Morning South Africa...ndiryt mna moc.If you love your baby comment with his/her picture and write a caption..lets go guys.

Thanks people for supporting me, as I said that it takes a world in raising a child...I promise you that I will give you my full attention and advises on how to overcome challenges we face as young mothers, fathers, uncles n aunts. Every child needs to be loved in gigantic quantities and with unbelievable quality...Am not going to dwell more an emotions like "am a single parent”, “I don’t work”, “am poor n can’t provide for my family”, utatakhe wamphika" but on how to make a living in the current situation and how to raise a child with love and peace and for you to do that is to move on and forgive yourself. We are going to share ideas, jokes and stories to uplift one another. Thank you, Inga Mahlutshana

QUOTES ABOUT PARENTING.

•As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently; respecting their differences.' (Stephen R. Covey)
•The best inheritance a parent can give their children, is a good example.
•The best thing to spend on kids is time.
•A child does not need to be parented. He needs to be mothered and fathered. (Zan Thompson)
•A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise that you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. (John Andrew Holmes)
•Children come into the world expecting to eat when they're hungry;
Our job is to teach them to eat when there's food.
•Children grow up to be adults, but parents are parents forever!
•Children need models more than they need critics. (Joseph Joubert)
•A common fallacy is that simply having a baby makes one a parent--which is as absurd as believing that buying a piano makes one a musician.
•Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Robert A. Heinlein)
•Don't let your parents down; they brought you up!
•Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum)
•Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Charles R. Swindoll)
•Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen. (John D. Rockerfeller III)
•Happiness is the atmosphere in which all things grow.
•A happy childhood is the best horseshoe nail.
•How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's table. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak he had planted. (Sir Walter Scott)
•A hundred years from now...it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove...but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.
•If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis)
•If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Abigail Van Buren)
•If you want to do something positive for your children, try to improve your marriage.
•If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. (Haim Ginott)
•In the eyes of a child, love is spelled T-I-M-E.
•Letting a child dictate to you is the same as robbing him of a parent.
•Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents. (James Brewer)
•My accomplishments? Let me show you these pictures in my wallet.
•My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have...because one kid'll take up 100 percent of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100 percent of your time. (Karen Brown)
•No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. (Lafcadio Hearn)
•Only in a world of love can we unfold and bloom.
•Parenthood is the art of bringing your children up without putting them down.
•Parents can give children things or time--time is better!
•Permissiveness believes in letting the child do whatever he wants on the premise that if he gets killed doing it he won't do it again.
•Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. (John Mason Brown)
•Some times we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. (James Dobson)
•Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
•There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children--one is roots, the other, wings. Hodding (Carter, Sr.)
•There is trial marriage but no trial children.
•There's nothing wrong with using four letter words in explaining the facts of life to children--words like love, kiss, help, care, give... (Sam Levenson)
•To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
•To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. (Josh Billings)
•To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness. (J.B. Priestley)
•What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P.D. James)
•When you were a kid, you never understood what your parents were going through. Now you'd just like to know how they got through it.
•Who of us is mature enough for children before they arrive? The value of marriage isn't that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. (Peter De Vries)
•The work will wait while you show the child a rainbow,
But the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
•You can do anything with children if only you play with them. (Prince Otto van Bismarck)
•Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Welcome to my world beautiful people

WELCOME TO PRESCHOOL: PRICELESS MOMENTS