RE: the things we learn from children...

["Bethany Keeley" <blk4 at calvin_edu>]

Sometimes children have their own wisdom.  One of my favorite stories is actually my roommate's, but she was sitting with a 4-year-old girl who said this:  "you know what's the healthiest?  Forgiveness.  Forgiveness and milk."  That, I think, was classic.

Kids also teach me about love.  They don't care how smart or well-dressed or succesful you are.  You're cool just because you are.  Isn't that great?  I have a little boy who I babysit sometimes and whenever he sees me he just sits there and beams at me.  It's so cute.

 

Jessyka mentioned:

> anyway, i have been touched by many a 
>   children's story (simple ones like this one, and more complicated ones like 
>   _the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe_, and i wonder, what kinds of things 
>   have you learned from children?  i know some of you have kids, some of 
>   you work with kids, some of you have young cousins, nieces, nephews. 
>
> i 
>   think that working with children has taught me how to love, and how to be 
>   patient, and how to look for the manifestation of my dreams, for sometimes 
>   dreams come true in the least expected way. 
>
> happy monday, everyone. 
>    i think it should be a lovely week.