Lets share and discuss our favorite quotes concerning children

[jnmorrow]

"The greatest deficit in America isn't the trade deficit. It's the
attention deficit of our children. The average child gets 14 minutes
of attention a day from each of his parents. So the greatest thing you
can give a kid is time spent listening to him or her."
-- Jack Canfield

I love my parents and think they are great people, but I grew up kind
of dissatisfied with my interactions with them. Recently, I came to
the conclusion that what I wanted the most from them was real
authentic attention.

I also released that this is an area I need to improve on with my
daughter.

Like tonight she wanted me to wear a bucket as a hat and parade around
with her endless it seemed. I wanted to clean and get online.
Sometimes the things our kids want to do are not too stimulating or
interesting to our adult mind, so it's really hard to pay attention.
But this is what my two year old wanted to do, and she wanted to do it
with me. So I stuck with it. I was not the best parade participant.
There was definitely some room for improvement. But I realized that
playing her way was kind of like really listening to her and giving
her authentic attention.

[jnmorrow]

"My Slightest Improvement IS of such Great Value"

~There is tremendous value when you are able to 'deliberately'
cause even the slightest improvement in the way you feel, for even in
that small emotional improvement, you may have regained a measure of
control. You no longer feel powerless. and so, your trek back up the
Emotional Scale is now not only possible, but it is relatively easy!'
Abraham~Hicks

This quote is not about specifically about children I know, but I
wanted to share it anyways, because I liked it so much, and it made me
feel so much better when I read it. But you can relate it to parent-
child relationships, because I think that for many who did not have
good relationships with their parents or children, often at the root
of it, was an unhappy individual who couldn't or wouldn't change, or
who thought what they had to overcome was too much for them to do, so
they did nothing. So that's why I love this quote.

Plus, what a great thing to teach your children.