Some wise words

Have you ever had those days? My good friend just did and her dad sent her a wonderful quote. I need to remember this each and every day. My kids are the best! Each one bring their most unique personality and love to make this family a great one. Thank you, Carter, Carson, Ammon and Nathan, mommy loves you.


Paul Dunn said it very well when he said:
"Sometimes parents try so hard to rear good children that they forget to enjoy the process. For some of us it all becomes such serious business, complete with orders, directives, and scowls. When do we step out of the pattern and just laugh? How often do we just talk, throw a ball, play a game? There should not always be that bitter edge between parent and child that says to the child that he's being watched. It's that edge that keeps him self-conscious, miserable, and uncommunicative around his parents."You who are parents, step out of that pattern for a minute and really look at your child. There is so much to enjoy in him. The Lord made only one like him. He didn't come from a cosmic Xerox machine. There are no other copies, and even tomorrow he won't be like he is today. The shine may be gone from his eyes and replaced by older worries. The giggles will be swallowed up in maturity, the bounce controlled, the gaps in his mouth from missing teeth filled. A small child never returns. Once he's gone, you won't find him again if you search the whole world over."So, I'm going to say something most shocking about child rearing. Once in a while--be a little careless, be a little carefree. Stop the car when you are hustling somewhere with your child and look for rocks or chase butterflies. Take his childish interests to heart. Let him wreck the kitchen for an afternoon searching for some secret in chemistry. Just once--get on the bed and jump with him. Run through the sprinklers when you've a hundred better things to do. Make him laugh. Laugh yourself! Isn't it funny that just having fun may be the most important thing you ever do?"(Paul H. Dunn, Variable Clouds, Occasional Rain, with a Promise of Sunshine, [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1986], p. 111.)