Life And Living Part 5
Babies Grow
Life and Living
Part Five
I have spent much time on our infant growing up, but Life can have its trials even here. Growing up takes a lot of work. It usually requires a lot of patience from the parents. Parents can't usually expect you to be able to get up from crawling and start walking. Walking takes time to learn, and many need help to overcome difficulties.
Both the toddler and the parents should look forward to falls. Both need to know patience and persistence.
Parents who develop and share these qualities with their little ones make this growing-up time even more pleasant.
It is too bad, even harmful, when we don't remember all the falls we have taken to learn to walk as an infant.
Yes, too bad, indeed. It is also too bad that parents don't remember them also. That is the pattern of Life's learning – falling, but getting up and going again.
When parents remember this concept and consider a falling as just a necessary step in education, they can be one step ahead of their child in the subsequent learning challenge their child enters into.
For example, it may be the challenge of learning to feed themselves.
Oh, what a challenge.
Oh, what a mess.
Oh, what frustrations to the tidy Mom.
Will it end her career of being a Happy, Tidy Housekeeper?
Let's hope she remembers the theme of the patience she showed in "the fall."
The fall wasn't the end but only the beginning of the future. The ending was the gracefully balanced walking as they strutted around the house or yard for everyone to see just for a smile or a "you're doing it now" words of appreciation and encouragement - all sent with approval.
Parents sometimes don't remember all they had learned in their first – go-round with their learning.
Parents must support each of the numerous areas of the child's needs with the same measure of diligence and persistence for the next learning challenge.
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7/2/2020 Larry E. Whittington
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