They say children are the best psychologists. I also found out that they are the best life lesson teachers as well.
Why?
Have you ever realised one day your child said or did something you felt totally wrong and you wonder from where she picked it up? And then someone tells you that she picked it up from you. And all these while you never realised you actually had it yourself. Yeah, its amazing how their simple mind mirror your actions and reactions every single second. They pick it up like a subconscious thing and they replay it for you.
Yeah, children make you check yourself. All these while, you may have taken things for granted and acted as you wished. Now you have to think twice, especially those bad parts.... do you really want your children catching on to those things like you did that you find so hard to get rid off?
Right from the words we utter, our actions especially our negative sides, reactions, our relationships with the world around us, children become a catalyst for change inspired by love.
In my case my main concern is my phobic tendencies to avoid social situations. There never has been a day since my daughter was born that i never prayed and prayed that she would never be affected by my disorders. I took precautions of not letting it show in front of her in case she absorbed it. So i encourage her to follow her dad or grandma to social functions without me. I thought i had escaped it until she asked me one day, "Ma, why are you always staying at home and asking me to go?" So i have no choice but fight harder against my symptoms for her sake.
And she becomes my best teacher. She teaches me to keep improving myself day to day. Never to let myself go and never to give up. For every single day she too is learning and i need to show better things in order for her to better herself too. So far so good, she is doing well. I look at my childhood photos and i compare with hers. While mine mostly looked morose, she looks a very much happier child. Maybe im not doing so bad after all.
And for that im glad, but the lesson never stops here.
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