Appropriate Expectations 4 Kids: Do You Have Any?

emeraldkity4
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:03:49 +0000

My expectations don’t have anything to do with what their hair looks like - but how they treat others- how they present themselves to the world & how they follow their dreams.

I have tried from the beginning, to help them develop the tools to form their own judgments so that they can make their way in the world.

I have always loved this passage & have tried to fashion myself as the place from which my children can go forth.



*"Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable." *