All a Child Needs
There is only one thing your child truly needs, and that is YOU in the now and in the present. It has nothing to do with time or your busy schedule. Time is not an issue. It’s about putting everything else aside (your problems, your work, your relationships, your busy, busy lifestyle) and for that one moment simply ‘being’ with your child in every depth of your existence. Listening. That’s all your child needs. And so do you.
** sidenote ** (Updated June 1, 2007)
The other day I was sitting with my 6-year-old neice on the porch swing, when all of a sudden we found ourselves talking about one of her classmates who, as she described it: her father went away when she was a baby and he never came back. They speak on the phone occasionally. “They’re not divorced,” she pointed out to me, “they’re just SEPERATED”. She also explained to me that the girl’s mother ran a day-care center at home and that she never had time for her daughter. She said her friend sometimes felt that the kids her mother takes care of all day long experience having her as “their mother” more than she did. Together, we discussed how that made her friend feel and if she had tried sharing these feelings with her mother…
“Yeah, she tried!”
“So what happened? Did it help?”, I asked.
She then shook her head with deep empathy and compassion. “No! Her mother didn’t listen.“
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