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.
Children, Parenting, Childhood
Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
Peace, Pain, Forgiveness
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Mistakes, Humanity, Human Nature
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.
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.
Happiness, Children, Childhood
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