Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and
it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”
- Gary Smalley
Yesterday we spoke about the empty nest what silence it brings. On how the six human needs that we learned in school interact with who and what we need and what we are as parents.
Our children do grow up and if you have kids at home, as I do, you cherish each day and each moment.
I do tell me kids, both of them that I am not here to be their friend. I am here to be their father. Thats my job and I take it seriously. They understand and they are both awesome and loving children. I told them both that this morning, they know how awesome I think they are.
So yesterday we did the first three human needs
Our children do grow up and if you have kids at home, as I do, you cherish each day and each moment.
I do tell me kids, both of them that I am not here to be their friend. I am here to be their father. Thats my job and I take it seriously. They understand and they are both awesome and loving children. I told them both that this morning, they know how awesome I think they are.
So yesterday we did the first three human needs
Need # 1
The need of certainty and comfort.
Need # 2
Uncertainty and Variety
Need # 3
Significance
So today, we move on to:
Need # 4
Connection and Love
The connection that a mother has with her son or daughter is amazing. The connection between twins is also hard for another person to understand but there is that connection with out a doubt.
Any parent knows the special bond with a child, can be another baby from across the room and we can empathize with the parent. The love in the eyes that we send across that room and know that was us at some point in parenthood. We loved, we admired, we protected and with out any doubt we would do anything for our children.
That connection is so very solid.
When a parent loses a child, whether at a store, or in life the panic and the pain and the sorrow is so very large. In life when a child is lost to this world, our world we never ever forget. We don't we love them and miss them and want to hold them just one more time. That feeling goes on - forever.......
Connection and love is always present in parenthood and it is so very dominating in any parents life.
Need # 5
Growth
Oh how we love to watch our children grow. We want the very best for them but we get excited marking the growth on the wall with a pencil each time we see growth. We look at pictures of them all through our life to remind us how quickly they grew. It is amazing : )
These are my two my favorite picture of all time. : )
So today, we move on to:
Need # 4
Connection and Love
The connection that a mother has with her son or daughter is amazing. The connection between twins is also hard for another person to understand but there is that connection with out a doubt.
Any parent knows the special bond with a child, can be another baby from across the room and we can empathize with the parent. The love in the eyes that we send across that room and know that was us at some point in parenthood. We loved, we admired, we protected and with out any doubt we would do anything for our children.
That connection is so very solid.
When a parent loses a child, whether at a store, or in life the panic and the pain and the sorrow is so very large. In life when a child is lost to this world, our world we never ever forget. We don't we love them and miss them and want to hold them just one more time. That feeling goes on - forever.......
Connection and love is always present in parenthood and it is so very dominating in any parents life.
Need # 5
Growth
Oh how we love to watch our children grow. We want the very best for them but we get excited marking the growth on the wall with a pencil each time we see growth. We look at pictures of them all through our life to remind us how quickly they grew. It is amazing : )
These are my two my favorite picture of all time. : )
I love that picture. Sure you have one that you cherish.
That picture shows growth. Where they were and where they are now.
What magic that growth happens in front of our eyes and it amazes as we grow older.
Need # 6
Contribution
We have and we still do contribute. It is important to know that we have. That we raised our children to be contributors themselves.
That we know as we pass on they will have a life of their own and breathed easier because we lived.
We hope that we did enough, that we raised our children to make wise choices. Our parents hoped that for us, did we make mistakes? Oh did we.....lol. Yes they will to its called an education, learning the ropes that we carry are there for us and even if we are at the very end of the rope we hold on and climb back up to higher ground.
The contribution we can make in this world is so massive we hardly recognize it.
We can be a parent, a friend to others, an ear for those who need it, arms for those to hold, and a smile to be shared with another to just maybe lighten a load. The power is yours my friend.
Make a difference. You did as a parent and even if you are not a parent, maybe just maybe you watch over another child as if it was your own, with love and patience.
Till next time..... Smiles sent your way ; )
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Some events to think about on this day
1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
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Your Daily Prayer
Thank you for the awesome gift of parenthood. May I always feel that first day that they came in this world, in my arms, in my heart and became not just a responsibility but so much more.
Thank you for their health and may you always protect and when that time comes for them to have children may you give them wisdom and patience and direction.
Thank you for this gift called parenthood.
Amen
Thank you for their health and may you always protect and when that time comes for them to have children may you give them wisdom and patience and direction.
Thank you for this gift called parenthood.
Amen
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