"So many parents today have become better at organising their kids than at nurturing them. Organising is something we do with our brains. It's about finishing homework and getting to soccer or music lessons on time....."
"But with all our organising, have we done enough nurturing? Nurturing is something we do with our hearts as well as our heads. It's about adding the hug to the schedule, the praise to the push, the warmth to the light. It's about noticing who they already are as we help them toward what they can become."
"The worst parenting metaphor we've ever heard goes something like this: "The child is the lump of clay, and the parent is the sculptor."
"A vastly better analogy is that of a seedling. The tiny green shoots in the greenhouse nursery may all look alike, yet one is an oak, one a pine, one an apple tree. We don't mold them, we nurture them, discovering who they are, learning what they need, providing the individually appropriate amounts of water, sunshine, and fertiliser to help them grow into the best of what they already are."
by Linda and Richard Eyre
While I've never considered myself a person with a green thumb (just ask the grass in our backyard that WAS lucious and green a few months ago ;), I am slowly working out what these little 'seeds' of mine need. Individually.
I hope as the seasons begin to change, I will continue to learn and know exactly how I can help them bloom where they are planted!
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