Time is the name of the best gift for children, it is not sold in toy shops or on the Internet, you can only find it in yourself, at your disposal and knowing that a story is not read in 2 minutes.
Spending time with children doesn’t mean giving them their cell phones, tablets or turning on the TV on their favorite channel. It’s not education, it’s not love, it’s not love.
- Childhood is one of the most important stages of life in which the fabric of our evolution is woven.
- So children are immersed in many changes that sometimes adults do not even notice and therefore lose if they are not aware.
“Precipitation is negative, not explaining things calmly can lead to mistakes. It is necessary to create a climate where children can ask questions and give time for everything to be round, without loose wires. Any topic that is addressed calmly and enthusiastically captures children’s interest. But to do that you have to live it, believe it, does everything stay inside if you don’t have time to get it out?-Ana Etchenique-
Educating and sharing moments means respecting your rhythms, giving space to develop, not skipping steps, growing and evolving without the stress and demands we create around you.
This educational perspective is based on slow philosophy, which expresses the need to promote a calmer pace of life, thus promoting maturity, evolution and the creation of links based on the natural progress of the child, without haste.
Thus, it is possible to accompany the little one at every step, not force his evolutionary steps and offer psychological oxygen to his education, forgetting the marks and impregnating with pleasure every little learning, every manifestation of affection and each collection of motifs.
Hurry up is our worst advisor. She is in charge of stealing the most precious moments and the most beautiful details of childhood magic. Now if you think about it, maybe you can fix it.
Household chores, storage, bathroom, football at six, birthdays at eight, dinner at ten o’clock?What do we want to accomplish with that?Are we aware of what we are losing and what we are losing?
Probably not. We have to ask ourselves if we are giving our children time, whether we are playing enough with them and whether we are organizing their daily lives by re booking times when we dedicate ourselves exclusively to them and to us together.
Therefore, it is important to
Don’t let the rushes or bad habits that currently exist mark your children’s education, the best gift is not fashionable cartoons or the latest Disney dolls, the best gift is to share with them the most precious good that exists in life and never comes back time.
Images courtesy of Karin Taylor.