The Day I Have Children...

[This is something I wrote a while ago. Keep in mind when you read, that a few things I have written are metaphors. And enjoy!]

The day I have children, will be a day I won't live in a busy place.

My children will not know of technology when they're only 5. 

They will play outside, they will run free. 

They will use their bodies. Their legs to run, their arms to push, to lift, to climb. 

They will use their minds, not on phones or iPads, but on puzzles and drawing boards, they will use their eyes on story books and nature, finding birds in trees and picking colours of paint.

They will not be cleanly dressed at the end of each day. They will be covered in fun, from bruises from falling down, paint from creating something new; that I will, with no doubt find spectacular! And dirt marks over their entire self from exploring what is out there!

There will be no tv time, or consoles to play in my house. There will only be bookshelves and home made stories from photos of our good times.

My children will learn through their mistakes, when they fall down, I will not cradle them, I will  simply say, "stand up sweetie, you're ok!" 

My children will learn to be themselves through creative play, they will learn what they like and don't like and I will teach them how to tell the world around them.

I will teach them to stand up for who they want to be, what they want to do, and what they believe in, if I have a son who wants to go out shopping dressed as a fairy, I will dress with him! And when people stare and spit their critical judgments, I will look down on them and firmly say, "please do not teach my son your bad attitude. Take it somewhere else"

I will teach my children to respect, to always give but don't expect. To show love and if people knock them down, get back up and walk around them with their head held high!

I will teach my children to have a positive attitude, to remember to always have fun, to enjoy what they do, to appreciate the little things and to always see the beautiful things.

Because children, at first, only know what we teach them.

And what we teach them, is more than words. It is our actions, and our attitude. It is everything that they see. They take it all in.

And as they grow, they will reshape that to become something more than what they were once told or shown.

They will reshape it into their life, it will grow into their personality and we can only hope that the end result will be somebody beautiful, because they are what we have created.