tkt8763-01: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Delivery (fwd)

[Marilyn Dossett Bowen <mdb7@ra.msstate.edu>]

Just another vivid picture of the opportunity we have to encourage and
nurture the "children" we have a part in raising.

Marilyn



 
 	Remember, We're Raising Children, Not Flowers!
  
       David, my next-door neighbor, has two young kids ages 
  five and seven. One day he was teaching his seven-year-old 
  son Kelly how to push the gas-powered lawn mower around the 
  yard. As he was teaching him how to turn the mower around at 
  the end of the lawn, his wife, Jan, called to him to ask a 
  question. As David turned to answer the question, Kelly 
  pushed the lawn mower right through the flower bed at the 
  edge of the lawn - leaving a two-foot wide path leveled to 
  the ground!
       When David turned back around and saw what had 
  happened, he began to lose control. David had put a lot of 
  time and effort into making those flower beds the envy of 
  the neighborhood. As he began to raise his voice to his son, 
  Jan walked quickly over to him, put her hand on his shoulder 
  and said, "David, please remember...we're raising children, 
  not flowers!"
       Jan reminded me how important it is as a parent to 
  remember our priorities. Kids and their self-esteem are more 
  important than any physical object they might break or 
  destroy. The window pane shattered by a baseball, a lamp 
  knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the 
  kitchen are already broken. The flowers are already dead. I 
  must remember not to add to the destruction by breaking a 
  child's spirit and deadening his sense of liveliness.
  
		 By Jack Canfield 
     from A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul  
   Copyright 1995 by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen  
  
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