Not sure when or how I first came across Chris Jordan but I really appreciate her writing style and well-earned wisdom as the mother of 7 kids:
"What our kids remember is how we made them feel. Did we delight in them as individual people? Did we pay them attention? Did we stop, look them in the eye and really listen when they spoke? Did we acknowledge what was important to them, even if it was something we didn’t quite understand? In they end our children will remember how it was we made them feel during their years growing up, not the stuff they got or didn’t get." ~ Chris Jordon @ Alphamom
Sometimes when one of my girls says something particularly smart or funny at a moment when I'm distracted, I stop and really look at them and listen, and then I think that I need to do so more often.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty good advice for all important relationships really. Sometimes I feel I don't do this enough for my husband either.
ReplyDeleteHusband? What husband? Oooohhh, right, that guy.
ReplyDeleteToo right.