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Anonymous Author (December 2006) |
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I will never forget the first time Breanna said those three little words........It bought tears to my eyes.I was wondering if I said those words to her too many times,It seemd to me each sentence I uttered was followed by I love you my Baby. Her Dad often thought she
would grow up thinking her name was I love you LOL,you all get the picture.
I had just taken Breanna for her bath,I was leaning over drying her little face when I cupped her chin in my hand and whispered I love you so much my little one, she put her hands over mine then held my chin and said I yuuuvvv oooouuuu tooo my mummy. This is what parenting is all about, I will never ever forget that moment it is one of many that I cherish. I often do wonder if I over use those 3 words.........
Breanna can be outside in the middle of very important play when all of a sudden she will jump up blond hair flying run helter skelter to me,wrap her chubby little arms around my legs and say I yuuvvv oouuuu my mummy,I just melt. There is another side to this though........Lately when she is up to no good and sees I am cross she gives me the cheesiest grin, looks up at me through her long lashes blue eyes twinkling and says Yuuuvvvv oouuuu toooo mummy What do you do????? I am learning to stay stern (almost) I reckon honestly these 3 little words are the ones that cannot be over-used.
It seems to me with each word of encouragement and praise our children bloom and flourish. I am watching Breanna grow into such a happy confident little person day by day. I think all children respond best to praise and kindness. I have done quite a bit of teachers aiding in the past and in the end I was given the difficult kids in the class most times, I found that they would be so competitive with each other just to hear words of praise from me. I often handled them whilst out on excursions and school camps.
These kids at times came from pretty rough families and were little scallywags, however they would puff up their little chests with pride and try even harder to hear my praise and encouragement. I believe the more you put into kids the more they reward your efforts with good behaviour, they are not infallible of course but nor are we.
One day one of my little rough nuts over heard me telling my step son I loved him, Todd went off going yeah yeah yeah the other boy said but how come you tell him that you love him? He is not even your kid. I replied I love all kids, you know I will never forget the look on his face, he gazed up at me with eyes the size of saucers and said
EVEN ME I replied of course I do.
That little boy told me his mum did not love him, I said that I was sure she did. He said that she blamed him and his brother for mucking up her life and they were just trouble. I told him she was probably just having a bad day and she couldn't mean it. He said but she doesn't tell us she loves us.This boy is now a teenager with low self esteem and a drug problem. He is even known to the police in our district.
So I look at my baby and I know I can't tell her I love you enough. I think every-one should now go and wake all their kids up just to say I love you.............NAHH just kidding,wait till morning bye regards Merle
