What have your children taught you?

I just had a lovely moment with DD where she taught me a valuable lesson - a child's imagination is precious and should be nurtured. As adults we are too quick to try and pull ourselves back to the harshness of reality and I need to remember that she is only this gorgeous age once...

We had just arrived home from the shops and DD was due for a sleep, getting tired and grumpy. She found her Miffy toy and had a receipt and was trying to wrap it around Miffy. Obviously, it kept falling off and DD, being tired, was getting frustrated with it.

She cried out to me "Mummy, it's not working!" and I glanced at her and said "It's going to keep falling off, because it's just a piece of paper!"

She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and responded "No mummy, to me it's a cape."

So precious. I closed my mouth (where's my baby gone?), shook myself and said "Of course it is, silly mummy, let's get some sticky tape so we can attach Miffy's cape."

She is now snuggled up in bed, cuddled up to Miffy, who is wearing a cape.

Lesson learned mummy!

So what have your little ones taught you?

Awww thats so cute!!!!

Currently with day I am having my kids have taught me I can scream really loud all day and not loose voice LOL

Expect the unexpected. Imagination was something I longed for and now I have a child with autism instead. My child has taught me that parenting isn't my journey, it's about sharing somebody elses.

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Awww thats so cute!!!!

Currently with day I am having my kids have taught me I can scream really loud all day and not loose voice LOL

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Meow, that's really beautiful :hug:

To enjoy the moments. To rediscover. To smell the roses. To look at everything with brand new eyes.

Well....I try to :lol:

And it's doing wonders for my relationship with my beautiful husband :)

They have taught me soo much... i think right now, with a screaming toddler and a screaming baby i am learning to have patience... a semi trailer load of patience!

Patience. I am not the most patient person in the world. Actually, I have very little patience for most people. However it would seem that the powers that be anticipated this. So rather than let me waste the valuable patience that I have on unimportant things / people, it has made me save them all up for my DS and his brother to come. I am so much more patient with Mitchell than I am with anyone.

Love - They taught me to love like no one else could, I could never imagine to love a person the way that I do my kids, from the first time I knew they were inside me... It's that kinda love that will over power any other feeling - it's the most amazing feeling in this world.

My son has taught me that a mother's role might be to nurture but it is important to be nurtured too.

Lately I've been a bit emotional and I'll often say things like "I'm losing it." Or "I feel so angry" as I often do as I always express my emotion openly. Well lately every time I say that lately DS will come running and wrap his arms around me and bury his head into my chest and I melt. And then he'll say "Is that better? Is it going away now." And it works every time. Sometimes I have to fight back the tears. He tells me he has magic cuddles. I know they say a mother's kiss heals all... but so does a child's love...

How to enjoy the simple pleasures of a lie in and quiet time.

That apparently the "fingers on lips" style of shushing is the funniest thing in the world :rofl:

I'll be back soon with a more serious answer ;)


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You can't change other people, even little people, so it is better to work with them than try to get them to do what you want.-

Awww, what a gorgeous thread :)

BBS to add mine.

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Expect the unexpected. Imagination was something I longed for and now I have a child with autism instead. My child has taught me that parenting isn't my journey, it's about sharing somebody elses.

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thats lovely!!!

OP , arnt they precious! sounds like something my DD1 would say.

i was getting frustrated with her just as she was going to bed as she was being silly (tired) and i snapped at her (im tired too) and her response was ''we have had a lovely day mummy, dont ruin it by being cross'' very quickly put in my place :redface:

she teaches me patience every day...im gettig better

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My son has taught me that a mother's role might be to nurture but it is important to be nurtured too.

Lately I've been a bit emotional and I'll often say things like "I'm losing it." Or "I feel so angry" as I often do as I always express my emotion openly. Well lately every time I say that lately DS will come running and wrap his arms around me and bury his head into my chest and I melt. And then he'll say "Is that better? Is it going away now." And it works every time. Sometimes I have to fight back the tears. He tells me he has magic cuddles. I know they say a mother's kiss heals all... but so does a child's love...

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wow....kids rock!!! hugs

Rouge that's beautiful.

Mine have taught me that I'm a yeller :(

I'm also really good at doing the puzzles they pull out and don't put back. But they have taught me how to have fun again and that it's important to laugh every day.

that a simple bedtime story and goodnight kiss is the best bandaid for a bad day.

Patience and to 'forgive and forget' ;)

Must say my initial response to the heading was "my kids have taught me the true meaning of frustration" ... but that's only cos I'm TTing DS1 and poo-in-the-undies is driving me batty LOL.

My kids have taught me that it is possible to be so full of love my heart could burst, so full of frustration my head could explode and so full of giggles, cuddles and kisses from two little boys that my arms will never be long enough to keep them close to me at all times like I might wish. They will grow up too fast.

Rouge... Beautiful.

Every answer in here has made me smile and tear and laugh. How precious these little people are!

That anything is possible :D Imagination is special..... and to "forgive and forget" and about unconditional love.... so many more....

DD has an amazing imagination for her age, it blows me away. She'll wrap a piece of material around her body and say "look mummy I'm getting married" and then we start singing together "here comes the bride"..... things like that, we are really silly together but she prompts it all and I just go along with it :D

A glass of water could have fish in it.... I'll say to her "oh really? how many? what colour are they?" I would never say "no that's silly" like some people do to their kids!!

DD has taught me how much you really truly can love your kids and how they are your entire world and it breaks your heart to even think about something happening to them :(

oh, and our DD has taught us that sleep doesn't matter and that we can sleep when we're dead ;) hahaha

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Love - They taught me to love like no one else could, I could never imagine to love a person the way that I do my kids, from the first time I knew they were inside me... It's that kinda love that will over power any other feeling - it's the most amazing feeling in this world.

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Exactly that.. I knew I would have an amazing love for my kids, but with the twins I was amazed at how much power my love actually had. Nothing else mattered but them.

Unconditional love there is nothing in this world like the love you feel for your child and the minute you know they are growing inside you that protective instinct just takes over my kids are my world the air i breath and the reason i get out of bed every day.

To stop and smell the roses, and to smile and laugh more than I ever have before. To take pleasure in the simple things, that it really is amazing how a spider spins its web, that we get such amazing bird life in our garden, that a ball will bounce and roll (and bounce and roll, and bounce and roll, over and over and over and over....and it's still fascinating to some, days later!), and that to see a child laugh and smile never gets old. And that, he can still reduce me to happy tears when I least expect it. Oh, and that little kids can have BIG appetites, lol!

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My son has taught me that a mother's role might be to nurture but it is important to be nurtured too.

Lately I've been a bit emotional and I'll often say things like "I'm losing it." Or "I feel so angry" as I often do as I always express my emotion openly. Well lately every time I say that lately DS will come running and wrap his arms around me and bury his head into my chest and I melt. And then he'll say "Is that better? Is it going away now." And it works every time. Sometimes I have to fight back the tears. He tells me he has magic cuddles. I know they say a mother's kiss heals all... but so does a child's love...

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This brought a tear to my eye! What a truly beautiful little man.

The most important thing my DD has taught me is how jumping around the room can always bring a smile to your face no matter how bad your day is ;)
She treats everyone with so much tenderness and wants to make sure that everyone is always included. It reminds me to take a moment and reflect on how I treat others.

Janie xxx