Stop. Think of Love. with Children
Stop. Think of Love… with children.
Whether you are a parent, grandparent, sibling, or someone who simply interacts with children by watching them with their parents in the grocery store, you have an impact in a developing person’s life.
Children come from Love. Just observe a little baby and how people croon over them. Why? People can feel very strongly the pure love that emanates.
While our world is still far from treating children as equals, you can pioneer the path simply through doing one thing when it comes to relating with children…
Stop. Think of Love.
Okay, my child, grand child, or someone else’s child is being really annoying right now and I simply don’t like how he or she is behaving. I’d like to tell her how wrong she is for acting bad and out of our cultural norms. She needs to know.
And yet, the best way I can show her how to behave is to be an example.
An example of love.
A true demonstration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote, “Hate cannot drive out have, only love can do that.”
I might be angry, but this child’s need for peace and well being is greater than my need to vent and put her down.
I love her and as I show that love, acceptance, and belief that she is and can be her best possible self, she will blossom.
I am contributing to the healthy development of a new generation – in effect, a new Earth.
All through simply stopping to think of love with all children I encounter.
Amy Christine Bush is a spiritual teacher and healer who helps parents and others simply make the most of their lives, now.