{"id":536,"date":"2009-08-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2009-08-20T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T04:01:56","slug":"out-of-the-mouths-of-babes-august-19-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes-august-19-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the mouths of babes, August 19 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very good friend of mine, one my personal bff\u2019s, was telling me about a conversation she had at Church with her 6 year old over this past weekend.\u00a0 \u201cGrace was sitting on my lap asking me if Mary died and I said no.\u00a0 Then she asked me if Joseph died and I said yes.\u00a0 She said I know why it\u2019s because he had to walk so far and Mary did not die because she rode on a donkey.\u201d\u00a0 I have not laughed that hard in so long.\u00a0 In the Catholic church we believe that Mary ascended to heaven body and soul and Joseph died a natural death. How often do you hear what children say and just take pure joy from the innocence of his\/her perspective.\u00a0 I remember when I babysat as a teenager, it was for the same family for 7 years, how often I would ask the little girls questions just to get an objective innocent opinion.\u00a0 You know how it is as a teenager every girl dates at least 1-2 jerks, sometimes I think that is a requirement so you can differinate when you find a good one.\u00a0 Anyway I was dating a jerk for entirely too long and I would ask the girls questions, on their age level,\u00a0about the way he treated me and their answers were crystal clear, never biased by friends who wanted to not hurt my feelings, or parents who wanted me to break up with the jerk.\u00a0 Their answers were just what they thought were the right things to do in life.<\/p>\n

To this day I do that with my children.\u00a0 I don\u2019t lay heavy situations on them.\u00a0 If I have a conflict I break it down in simple terms and ask what they would do. And don\u2019t you know children have such a refreshing unselfish view of how to solve problems.\u00a0 When you are a little kid your actions are not wrapped up in pride, possessions or climbing any ladders or protecting yourself.\u00a0 Your actions as a child are for the most part innocent and just trying to be good to others.\u00a0 So many older people I know were raised in households that truly believed that children should be seen and not heard, what a sad loss of a good relationship they could have had with their children.\u00a0 I try to make sure that either 2-3 meals a day I am sitting with my children and not just eating but discussing life.\u00a0 I love to give them hypothetical questions to answer.\u00a0 One of the questions I have asked is if you could go one of the following 4 places which place would you want to go the most?\u00a0 They choose from the moon, Florida next to the ocean, Jersaluem, where Jesus walked or Holiday world.\u00a0 It is so fun to hear each answer and to ask why.\u00a0 Oh my gosh, it is unreal they think so unbelievably different from us old adults.\u00a0 I once read that you cannot expect a child to react to a tragedy the same way an adult would. They take it all in so differently than we do, so they react very different.\u00a0 Which makes me wonder as a mom why can I not keep that in my head and not expect my child to act or think like an adult, like me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We all have our little stories about things our children have said and they are so fun to repeat to others. That is one of the best benefits to having children, they are so entertaining.\u00a0 Next time you find yourself stuck in a situation at work or with a friend that you can break down into simple terms a child could understand then I encourage ask your child what he\/she would do.\u00a0 Your child\u2019s answer will probably surprise you.\u00a0 Sometimes that simplicity can solve the most complex problem.\u00a0 Even if your child is not able to give you simple pearls of wisdom asking his\/her opinion makes your child feel important and more than likely his\/her answer will lighten your mood or perspective of the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sometime today sit down with your child and ask him\/her a question nothing too deep but something he\/she has to think about and really listen to his\/her answer and ask why he\/she believes that.\u00a0 Enjoy the conversation because \u201cOut of the mouths of babes\u201d comes the truth as they see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very good friend of mine, one my personal bff\u2019s, was telling me about a conversation she had at Church with her 6 year old over this past weekend.\u00a0 \u201cGrace was sitting on my lap asking me if Mary died and I said no.\u00a0 Then she asked me if Joseph died and I said yes.\u00a0 She said I know why it\u2019s because he had to walk so far and Mary did not die because she rode on a donkey.\u201d\u00a0 I have not laughed that hard in so long.\u00a0 In the Catholic church we believe that Mary ascended to heaven body <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,111,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}