"The lessons we most want to teach our children
are the ones we have not yet learned ourselves.
So we continually try to teach
what we do not know.
This is futile.
Try instead to refrain from talking.
Look carefully at the situation.
Listen attentively.
Let your mind be open to new understandings.
You will learn what you need to know.
And you will thus teach your children
how to learn their own lessons.
Nothing teaches children more
than a parent who is willing to learn.
What behavior in your children
makes you anxious?
What does that tell you
about yourself?"
I have always known that I wanted to do with my own children at least some things (okay, many) differently from the way my parents did them. This has been and always will be part of my desire to become a parent. This blog represents my efforts to let those things unfold. I look to the future with hope.
are the ones we have not yet learned ourselves.
So we continually try to teach
what we do not know.
This is futile.
Try instead to refrain from talking.
Look carefully at the situation.
Listen attentively.
Let your mind be open to new understandings.
You will learn what you need to know.
And you will thus teach your children
how to learn their own lessons.
Nothing teaches children more
than a parent who is willing to learn.
What behavior in your children
makes you anxious?
What does that tell you
about yourself?"
I have always known that I wanted to do with my own children at least some things (okay, many) differently from the way my parents did them. This has been and always will be part of my desire to become a parent. This blog represents my efforts to let those things unfold. I look to the future with hope.
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