I admit my tempers can easily flared up.. especially when I haven't eaten anything (happens quite a number of times) or when I'm trying to rush up things like paying online bills, rushing quotations/invoices/POs for hubby's business (I don't like to delay or leave things till last minute)...
And with a toddler now, I do find that one of the things I learned from Ben is: PATIENCE...
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Hmm... or like this quote says:
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones"
Yup... take this picture below for example...
See my handsome and playful little man there happily riding his ride-on car, maneuvering amidst the trails of Mega Bloks destruction all around our bedroom floor. Maybe to you it's just a couple of block toys all over the floor, but being kind of the everything-must-be-in-its-place person, it looks like a disaster site to me.
Given normal circumstances, I would have happily just play along, pushing the blocks away from his path and cheering him on... but when situations are critical which makes my anger flares up, I would be either screaming to myself (inside my head of course!) and/or scolding Ben.
After reading a few awesome parenting books (Zig Ziglar's "Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
" and Dr. Jenn Berman's "SuperBaby"), I realised that children learns by observing their parents. What we do is what they will do.
So yes, as much as I hate to admit I have this weakness of tempers being easily flared up at particular situations, I do realised that I have to and am in the process of learning to be more patience... for the sake of my child.
So nowadays, when I see my little man with all his toys everywhere, I'll take a deep breath, tell myself this is nothing, don't get angry, just relax and join in the fun... and then when we're done, I'll teach him to clean up his toys and make sure the room is neat and tidy again. Read this quote below:
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762"
I mean, why fuss so much with the mess when you see your child enjoying so much while playing? Right? And to that, I leave you with a Chinese proverb and an inspirational quote to ponder about:
"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb"
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