Motherhood is divine. My daughter is the best thing happened to me ever in my life 13 years ago. Initially, I was worried since I did not know “how to be a mother”. I never wanted to make the same parenting mistakes I learned as a child. I only wanted to inculcate the “good” in her so that she grows up to be a wonderful human being. Gradually, in the process, I learned that parenting itself has a lot of scope for learning. Honestly, my child has taught me many lessons that I could have never realized any other way.
Few simple life lessons but most important for life are listed below:-
Patience
First and foremost lesson of my life as soon as I gave birth to my child was to be patient. Starting from feeding the baby and sleepless nights to making her learn alphabets and counting and to explain her grammar and equations, every single day requires a lot of patience. Now I realize that patience is one of the important traits that I now possess and I never had before I became a mother.
Live For Happiness
Most of us are busy earning and acquire materialistic possessions for the sake of future of our children. In fact it is very much required in today’s world. However, in the urge to saving our future we often forget to live our present. I saw my child so carefree that she never thought of what will happen tomorrow in the school and ensured that she went out to play today. This is actually the “mantra” of happiness which we often ignore and forget to live in today. My daughter taught me to find enjoyment even in the simplest moments of life.
Unconditional Love
There is no if, but or any expectation involved when a child loves you. She just needs your attention for no strong reason and wants to lie in your lap just like that. The flow of emotions is so pure that the child is always surrounded by positive energy and can only give love and affection back to this world.
Be More Expressive
I have seen my child expressing her love, anger, happiness, disagreement in the simplest way ever. She does not have to wait for me to be in the right frame of mind or think before expressing how she feels. She just says whatever is on her mind without thinking twice. If she can’t find suitable words to express she just hugs or plants kisses. Unmatched expression of love!
Forgive & Let Go
No matter how badly I scold my daughter or be strict with her on her wrong conducts but it is always so easy for her to forgive me and forget what happened soon after I have hugged her. As we grow up we tend to forget how important forgiveness is to lead a peaceful life.
Life Is Better Lived For Others
Before I became a mother, my entire adult life was one big “me” fest. It was about what I wanted to do with my life, how I was going to get what I wanted, and how I was going to make my mark on the world. The day that I discovered that I was going to be a mom, that all started to change. I began to think more about the safety and well-being of someone else, that someone being my future child, more than my own safety and well-being. This changed everything and little did I know at the time, but it would open the floodgates to a much greater realization that life is best lived when you live for others.
Overcome Your Fears
A child regardless of his / her age gets attracted and fascinated with whatever new comes their way. They have no fear in trying to touch a new toy or any new thing for that matter which they find fascinating. No matter they win or fail but they are open to make an attempt at least. We as adults are normally very reluctant to try new things even if we find ourselves attracted to them.
These were the most important lessons of life which I feel has made my life a lot easier and simpler. Share yours in the comments section.
Surprisingly I have had these from my child whom I thought, I will be teaching every little thing of life to grow up to be a wonderful human being!
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Beautiful post and I have myself learnt so many of these things that you listed from my son. It’s a blessing to have them in your lives!
Ytou have penned it so well. Kids are the one who made us parents and they keep on teaching us new things at every step of life.
It is said that child is the father of man, now i know how true it is.. after having two kids. There is so much to learn from children and how effortlessly they teach us valuable life lessons. Wonderfully penned Vandana.
You have described all the points so beautifully,Vandana! A great reminder
Very beautiful lessons to learn in the journey of parenthood for both kids and parents alike. Forgive and let go is such a powerful one for mothers to practice in my opinion . Loved every single lesson here and I am sure your daughter will grow up to inculcate most of bot all of them . Loved the post Vandana
Very valid points, kids are great teachers. The efforts and patience they spend in trying new things is admirable.
Every point is so true and really the essence to live life in a simple yet peaceful way. I can relate to the post Vandana and I cant tell you how much i have changed myself after becoming a mother. Each day a new life lesson is taught to me by my 4 yr old.
So agree with you Vandana kids also make us learn so many things time to time, just like the children our parenting also grows side by side in terms of patience, unconditional love and so on. nice post.
Well said. Thank you Archana
As usual, wonderfully penned Vandana. Unconditional love and fearlessness are definitely few of the qualities which our children teach us which get lost in the growing up due to societal conditioning.
All of us have something to learn from each other. Children with their innocent gestures teach us a lot of things, if we have intention to learn.
somewhere trying to become & react like adult we forget about all the 7 points you mentioned. Parenthood try to teach it again in the form of our child… but again we avoid it in our responsibilities. Very well written dear…loved reading it
Absolutely, there’s so much to learn from our kids 🙂
Thiss iss so true!! amazingg!!
We as parents when teach our kids, in return they also teach so much in life which we can never learn otherwise. Its a give & take journey, You have jotted down great points which we learn from our kids.
We assume it’s our job to teach kids how to walk, talk, blah blah…. but these young little kids are teaching us life lessons. So agree with your lessons learnt.
usually we teach our kids but u have made kids the teachers. this is so thought provoking. Kids actually teach us a lot.. U are an amazing writer. please keep writing.
I agree with everything you have said here. We really can learn so much from our children, in order to lead more fulfilling and happier lives.
Children are no doubt the great teachers,Ur little one did teach u all deep life lessons tat today she’s more than a daughter to u..
kids are so full of life, they keep experimenting without fear of failure. They teach us so many things everyday.
We learn a lot from kids these days. Gone are the days where they are considered small and not mature enough to express.
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Well said Vandana. Living for happiness than material things is really important to learn from our children.
Beautifully penned. You have written great points based on your observations.Children are the the best teachers.Loved your post immensely.
True. We get to learn a lot through out the journey of Motherhood, the unconditional love for our kids, patience is the key actually, forgiveness, being expressive, all points very well defined dear. Kudos to you, one thing for mothers, be brave, this roller coaster ride is going to give you butterflies in your stomach, never give up.
Yes, kids teach us many things. We tend to say we teach them a lot of stuff but its both ways. They teach us, introduce us to many are things on daily basis.
I agree that we get a perfect opportunity to learn so many things when we are with kids. especially forgive and let go is one of the most important positive personality trait that we forget as a grown up and kids remind us this thing so beautifully with their innocent nature and forgiving behaviour.
There is so much to learn from kids and these are some of the best lessons they teach us. Lovely post. 🙂
So true Vandana. It’s a two way relationship between us and our kids. We teach them and we learn from them too. From my daughter I have learnt selfless love and from my son I am learning being fearless…
Overcoming fears is the best thing that they teach us, we might still get scared of things that have occured but they would have overcome it easily.