Your child doesn’t need unattainably perfect childhood with unattainably perfect parents.

March 18, 2010

What your child needs is your warmth and your love even when they are in a rougher stage of development;
What your child needs is your laughter, authentic and real;
What your child needs today is a big hug and a whole lotta love;
What your child needs is a stable rhythm but also enough spontaneity to make life fun; nothing crazy, but go splash in some puddles! Get dirty! Play in the mud!
What your child needs is music and stories and being outside and playing;
What your child needs is a COMMUNITY of people who love them besides just their mother;
What your child needs is for you to have a vital, positive, wonderful marriage that they can look up to (even if they think it is disgusting when you kiss each other )
What your child needs is for you to understand child development and to have realistic expectations and for you to quit trying to fix them, to change them into someone else, and to control every single thing that goes on
What your child needs is for you to get real, give some things up for them so they can develop in the right way, but to also have FUN whilst you are doing it.
What your child needs is for you to see how real and precious and messy and wonderful parenting and family life is today.
Life is too short to not live with joy and love and warmth.

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