It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.-L.R.knost

For a child it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask,Do you see me ?Do i matter ? their behavior often reflects our response.

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For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

Source: L.R. Knost, Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages (2013).

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

Source: The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline (2013) by L. R. Knost.