If you are a mom or dad,
Your kids will watch you... make them glad!
They won’t recall your “talking-to”,
But what you did is what they’ll do.
They will need your help to learn.
To be like you they deeply yearn.
And what they see with their young eyes
Their little minds will memorize.
Children bring a “wake-up call”...
We really do not “know it all”.
They “stump” us with their constant “why’s?”
And what they know will bring surprise.
Stay in touch with what they know,
And by example, goodness sow.
Give to them your very best,
And through the years you will be blessed.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when
he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
© 2013 Arlene Schwartzkopf