President Hinckley said this:
"You have nothing in this world more precious than your
children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body
grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the
things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how
your children have turned out. It will not be the money you have made.
It will not be the cars you have owned. It will not be the large house
in which you live. The searing question that will cross your mind again
and again will be, How well have my children done?
If the answer is that they have done very well, then your
happiness will be complete. If they have done less than well, then no
other satisfaction can compensate for your loss."
"Children need time to play, to make mistakes, to explore, and to simply
be surrounded by the comforts of home. There is a mistaken belief that
because children are endowed with the ability to learn quickly, we
should actively take them to lessons to learn everything possible, at as
an early of an age as possible. Children learn through play. They learn
to experiment. They learn to cooperate, collaborate, negotiate, and
tolerate frustration. Children require time to play in order to recover
from the stress of separation from parents, from their room, from their
toys, their siblings, and their stuffed animals. The magic of childhood
is stolen when children are placed under the same time pressures as
adults. When you are lying on your back staring at the sky, stories are
imagined with clouds as the characters. Without the opportunity to spend
20 minutes staring at the clouds, we are depriving our children of
their most magical gift—their imagination. Without imagination, society
would not have invented anything. Our next generation of scientists,
artists, doctors, and entrepreneurs need to be well rested, so they require time to sleep. They also require time to dream." Robert E. Daniels
1 comment:
Those quotes are beautiful and such gentle reminders to me to pay more patient attention to my girls. Thanks for posting them.
And the second quote makes me not feel guilty about not having them in any extracurricular activities (only because we can't afford it). But I selfishly don't want them or our family to be that busy either. So that 2nd quote helped me feel better about just letting them play.
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