I've been wondering lately - maybe most days actually since I landed this job - how to parent better. I've been getting messages from the universe served up nicely by friends. I'm grateful because this tidbits form important lessons in my family life.
From the 14th Dalai Lama;
"There is a critical period of brain development from the time of birth up to at least the age of three or four during which time loving physical contact is the single most important factor for the normal growth of the child. If the child is not held, hugged, cuddled or loved, its development will be impaired and its brain will not mature properly.
Since a child cannot survive without the care of others, love is its most important nourishment. The happiness of childhood, the allaying of children's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence all depend directly upon love."
~ {click here for the full article}
As you know I love Star from Fiddle Sticks and Faerymother. Here is a line she wrote in her recent post titled Placenta Tincture and natural birth services.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi ~
