Your One Moment in Time
by mathe | Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 8:38 am | Uncategorized |
The past two posts delved into inspirational themes on motherhood and the immense responsibility of raising good kids. We have talked about love and affection and character building and now, I’d like to share my thoughts about a valuable commodity that is unfortunately in short supply in our busy, flurried existence. I am referring to T-I-M-E. This is the last installment in this trilogy of inspirational themes and then I will move on to more practical topics.
Time with your kids is one thing that should never be missing in your regular schedule. Of course, if you are a stay-at-home mom, you are always there inside the house and they always see you. Or, if you are working, you always go home at night, anyway. That does not count, however, if we are talking of time dedicated to bonding with and enjoying your kids.
Do not put off a few moments to talk, play or just hang out with your kids. Enjoy the “now” with your children and do not think that tomorrow is a better time. Even if you are only able to tuck them into bed every night because you are a busy executive or businesswoman, or only have dinnertime to sit down with them as you hold irregular working hours. What is important is they have your full attention when you are there.
Kids are especially perceptive. Even babies recognize stress and tension among adults – all the more little children who have grown too familiar with you. They will know if you are not totally focused on them and sometimes, they come to the wrong conclusion that they are not good enough for company, that they are boring you. Avoid such subtle messages that destroy their confidence and rob them of their joy of being in your company.
If you have not applied the phrase “seizing the moment” on rearing your kids, you have not actually tasted the benefits of motherhood. Enjoying, instead of fussing over your kids will rob you of the potential blessings of raising children.
Enjoy their laughter, the noise they make. It is indeed difficult to keep our cool when everything is going wrong and we hear crying, screaming and stuff crashing to the floor all at the same time. But think of this: do you prefer them not able to move at all, make any sound, or utter any word?
My point is, enjoy the moments you have with kids. There may be difficult days when everything is not going right and you feel impatient. Let those days be few and far between. Let there be more laughter and jokes and tickles and running around the house with them.
From the point of view of an adult, scenes like these are chaos. But in the eyes of a child, those are moments when he or she can completely relate to his or her mommy, when he or she can totally enjoy her company.
Seize the moment, enjoy your one moment in time to be able to start a deep and lasting friendship with your children. That moment is while they are young. Maximize those special moments you share with them, so that when you are not around, they will always look forward to seeing you again, and those special moments you give them will pull them through until they get to hug mommy again.
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You know, I don’t know how many times my Mom has told me the same thing, but after getting this new job and constantly being at work or busy, I never realized the impact of not spending “quality” time with them. I am a mom of 2 who are 3 and 4 years old. Sometimes with all of the havoc, I do forget that TIME is EVERYTHING, well almost.