domestic reflections: How to Really Love a Child.

How to Really Love a Child.

February 19, 2010

My uncle gave me a copy of this a long time ago and I used to have it hanging on our refrigerator. I have no idea what happened to it. I really like it a lot.

reminder from here

14 comments:

alliehoopesFebruary 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM
lovelove this. thank you. it's just enough to turn a grumpy mom day into an elephant chasing bubble blowing rainbow day.
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blakeFebruary 19, 2010 at 4:23 PM
this should be on everyone's fridge. I love the bit about putting them in water - truly a miracle cure :)
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For the Love of Naps - SarahFebruary 19, 2010 at 6:15 PM
SARK is great. I used to have some of her books!
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Victoria | Hibiscus BloemFebruary 19, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Its going on my fridge too. Thanks.
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AnonymousFebruary 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Sark is wonderful! Here's the poster on her web site: http://www.planetsark.com/eshop_products_posters_feat_02.htm
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Alice Q. FoodieFebruary 20, 2010 at 10:42 AM
I saw this again the other day and totally thought of you.
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DaisyFebruary 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM
I love this! Do you mind if I post it on my website? Please let me know!
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joraFebruary 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Daisy -- Of course not...I got it from someone else!
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UnknownFebruary 22, 2010 at 3:20 PM
I can't wait
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joraFebruary 22, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Carrie -- you are going to be the best mama. :-)
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JoslynFebruary 23, 2010 at 10:32 AM
i love this. thanks for the reminder!
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UnknownFebruary 24, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Love this, am putting on my desk top right now...big believer in the bath cure all over here!
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PenelopeFebruary 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Love this piece!
Thank you for sharing...Hope you don't mind me posting it on my FB fan page ~ http://www.facebook.com/ministyle.com.au
Kindest,
Penelope x
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Christie - Childhood 101February 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Reading this actually brought tears to my eyes. Wishing (as a society) we would let our children just be children for as long as possible and push back against this rush for them to grow up.

Thank you for sharing
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I love:
Rainy days, moody music, warm drinks, picking fruit from a tree, turquoise water, baking, sharing meals with friends, most everything “old world,” simple, rustic, smart, funny, really hot baths, feeling connected, being pregnant, finding the perfect gift, smelling the tops of my kids’ heads, cacti + succulents, citrus, California light, guest houses, stinky cheeses, everything my grandmother baked, hearing my kids laugh, small world connections, smiles between strangers, snuggling, reading cookbooks, modern, Mediterranean, walks in the forest, being near the ocean, everything about the desert, gold, jeans, Lillet Blanc, natural childbirth, the beginning of a new season, snail mail, hearing someone’s story, people who reveal themselves…

"let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. it will not lead you astray."
- rumi

"do small things with great love."
- mother teresa

"remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life."
- marcus aurelius

"we do not see things as they are. we see things as we are."
- anais nin

"we can love completely without complete understanding."
-a river runs through it

"the ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
-thomas moore

"i have decided to stick with love. hate is too great a burden to bear."
-martin luther king, jr.

"your children are not your children,
they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
they come through you but are not from you,
and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
you may give them your love but not your thoughts,
for they have their own thoughts.
you may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
you may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."
-kahlil gibran

"ring the bells that can still ring forget your perfect offering. there is a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in."
- leonard cohen

"the good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos."
-alicia randall

"out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. i will meet you there."
-rumi

"the best conversations with mothers always takes place in silence, when only the heart speaks."
-carrie latet

"to love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
-david viscott

"she discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
- gabriel garcia marquez

"the master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. he hardly knows which is which. he simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. to him he’s always doing both."
-james michener

"the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-bertrand russell