We face lots of challenges when we nurture our child. If we use taste to describe the journey, we do taste sweet, sour, bitter and spicy (this is the Chinese saying about life!). Children sometimes bring us so much joy that we smile and laugh with them. Sometimes they just give us so much frustration and annoyance that we can see smoke coming out from our head and ears. They can be angel and devil at the same time! However, I find that they are more to angel to me! Whenever I think about their silly acts and behavior, I have a smile on my face. When I think about their progress, I feel so proud to be their teacher and spend time with them. Most of the time, they keep showing us surprises!
Children are the real angels in our lives because they bring us life! They give us a purpose to move on. They shows us the direction in our live! I read this short story in today’s newspaper. It is about a man who met with a horrible railway accident two years ago. In the accident, the man’s body was ran through by a moving train. Due to the accident, his lower part body was smashed. However, he did not die, instead he called 911 for rescue. When the ambulance arrived to get him out of the scene, he did not passed out but called his family. He lived through the tragic and still alive. When reporters interviewed him on how he survived from such tragic accident, he just said, “I do not want to die. I want to see my children to grow up. I want to live because I want to see my children grow up every day!”.
While we are trying to educate our child, we are indirectly educating ourselves. We are improving and becoming a better person unconsciously because we need to be a good role model for our child. They are watching and observing us. They are copying and imitating our actions and behaviors into them. Therefore, we start to put more awareness on our own daily behaviors and actions. For instance, we need to show our child about good manners by saying thank you, please, welcome, excuse me, good morning and so on, we ourselves need to practice the good manners too! While we are doing so, we cultivate a good habit too!
We become more creative with new ideas! We take time to create play activities for our child at home and in the school in order to keep them occupy. When we observe some behavior change in our child, we think of the effective parenting approach to guide him. As long as we love our child and want to provide the best for our child, our brain is busy thinking and sorting the best formula in nurturing our child. Sometimes we need to do a little research online or in a bookshop to get some ideas and read about other people’s opinions or experiences. We have better ideas and even create a new activity according to our child’s level of development. Children are the angels who keep motivate us to learn, unlearn and relearn to become better parent or educator!
While we shower love to our child, we become a more loving and caring person. We tend to share our parenting experiences because we want other child to benefit like ours too! Nurturing a child is a very long process. It requires lots of patience. While we are doing so, we become more and more patient indirectly. Sometimes you’ll be surprise to see a bad temper person can be so loving and patient to their child. Have you seen a child change a bad temper person? My niece and nephews do change my father. He is a loving grandfather to them and they love him as well. As patience grow within us, we become a more understanding person too. We become more harmonious spiritually and our soul becomes calmer as we feel more loving and caring.
The above are my personal development when I start my career as teacher. I gain a lot when I spend more time with children. Sometimes we are so busy with life and frustrated in work, children tend to add some sweetness in our busy hectic life. Children are the angels in our lives! Appreciate them and love them unconditionally! I like to share the following, by Maria Fontaine in Mottos for Success :
Love does to children
what sun does to flowers
It works on grown-ups, too.
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