Inspirational Parenting » Poetry

While Like A Giant, Proud And Happy

Jeff — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:21:02 +0000

Tonight I am up late… remembering. I love the power of memory as it intertwines with emotion to form a temporary reality. In quiet solitude, this gift of memory allows me to sit for awhile with my mother who passed away many years ago. It gives me glimpses into moments I will forever cherish and allows [...]

Learning To Be A Mother

Everydaymomideas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:21:28 +0000

Learning To Be A Mother -by Julia M. DeLeeuw

Oh how the young lady boasts of the Mother she’ll be. Planning and contemplating From the moment she realizes that one day her dollies Can be replaced By rosy cheeked Cherubs of her own. Oh the planning. What she will be… What she wont do… And how she definitely won’t be her own Mother. So confident in [...]

Children, A Blessing From God

author unknown — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:49:45 +0000

Children are a blessing sent from God above For us to care and nurture and most of all to love. God calls us to be parents and provides us with the tools And when we feel like giving up, our strength He will renew.

Children are a gift from God that He so freely lends To make it through the [...]

Flowers for Mommy

author unknown — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:30:32 +0000

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, ‘Oh excuse me please’ was my reply. He said, ‘Please excuse me too; I wasn’t watching for you.’

We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home a different story is told, How we treat our loved ones, young and old. [...]

Walk a Little Slower Daddy

author unknown — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:38:25 +0000

“Walk a little slower, Daddy”, Said a little child so small. “I’m following in your footsteps, And I don’t want to fall.

Sometimes your steps are very fast, Sometimes they’re hard to see; So walk a little slower, Daddy, For you are leading me.

Someday when I’m all grown up, You’re what I want to be; Then I will have a little child Who’ll want to [...]

As I Grow

author unknown — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:54:20 +0000

Please understand I am growing up and changing very fast. It must be difficult to keep pace with me, but please try.

Please reward me for telling the truth. Then I am not frightened into lying.

Please tell me when you make mistakes and what you learned from them. Then I can accept that I am okay, even when I [...]