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8 Life Lessons From Our Children
Parents are expected to teach their children, but who says they can’t teach us a thing or two?
As parents, we teach our children how to walk and talk, use silverware and toilets, have manners and keep their hands to themselves. We teach them compassion and kindness and how to show love and appropriately express anger.
But it’s not a one-way street. While we’re busy teaching our children new life lessons, our children may be busy reminding us of old ones. Here are eight things my children have reminded me to do in life.
How to be curious
From the moment they’re born, children are curious. They explore everything around them — and they don’t explore with just their eyes and ears. They employ hands, feet, and even their mouths in their attempts to learn about the world around them.
This curiosity continues until something (or someone) crushes it. For many of us, that something is school or an adult who makes us feel that our curiosity is silly or annoying.
If we watch our children, however, we can be reminded that curiosity helps us learn. It helps us grow.
Watching our children reminds us that curiosity is a natural thing. It can also remind us that curiosity can…
