Knowledge

     You watch their little faces as they try to learn something new. You softly correct them when they make mistakes. A child wants to absorb as much as possible like a sponge holds water. We sometimes forget their minds are in a constant growing state and must be nurchered for proper  growth. It's easy to find fault with them if we don't think they are learning quick enough and its then we need to stop and remember our brains are so much bigger and filled with decades of knowledge we can't expect them to understand everything we say. I get such joy watching a child learn something knowing they learned it by themselves. Simple tasks like tieing a shoe, or counting to one hundred is a giant step and should be treated as such. Those first drawings that adorn our refrigerators and walls are an indicator of imagination that should also be praised and talked about. A child's life is one big puzzle that they will eventually understand and put all the pieces where they belong but we as adults have to be their guides with both patience and constant attention so they won't do half the puzzle and walk away from it. Today a twelve-year-old boy can stand six foot tall weighing over two hundred pounds with a size twelve shoe, but his brain is still only filled with twelve years of knowledge. As we send our children and grandchildren off to a new school year lets remember those big feet can only carry him so far before he turns to you for answers.

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