They are plants which flower in their due season!
Yesterday, while in a conversation on parenting, a question came up about formative parenting!
Children during the mid childhood are a reflection of the home and the parenting practices.
The attentive presence to their formative process is a parenting vocation!
And yet, it is where parents find the experiences disturbing!
A family who sought help for episodic bed wetting of their eight year old son after he was dry from the age of five years found themselves perplexed! It was during the private interview with parents it became clear that the episodic bed-wetting occurred when the father was on his business trip once in two to three months. Their son seemed to miss the long walk with his father and their dog in the evenings. When the mother substituted for the walk with their dog during the father's absence, the child remained dry at night!
It was a message that transitions at home have a formative influence during the mid childhood.
The plants above bore flowers because they were tended to in a mindful manner!
A home offers such an ambience of emotional and social formation for children!
I sometimes wonder whether parenting engagement receives attentive presence to the extent children in mid childhood need!
Children are flowers born out of good parenting practices.
A family holds a meeting with their two children every weekend to listen to them in an unhurried manner. The family mentioned it to be occasions of building bridges in communication and knowing the aspirations of children! That family revises parenting environment regularly to stay contemporary to the growing profile and needs of their children!
A home is a garden of life for children. Parental vocation is to be companion to their children in their formative journey!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
