Good Advice for Parents

 

 

Make The Ordinary Come Alive

 

 

 

Do not ask your children
 

to strive for extraordinary lives.

 

Such striving may seem admirable,

 

but it is a way of foolishness.

 

Help them instead to find the wonder

 

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

 

Show them the joy of tasting

 

tomatoes, apples and pears.

 

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

 

Show them the infinite pleasure

 

in the touch of a hand.

 

And make the ordinary come alive for them.

 

The extraordinary will take care of itself.

 

~William Martin

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