“To every thing there is season, and at time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
To raise a child is one of life’s toughest, most satisfying and rewarding challenges. However, many parents may lack the necessary skills and knowledge needed to support confident childcare. Somehow, we parents lost of our natural instinct when we are bombarded overwhelming information and advices. Young parents feel never assured and isolated. They ignore or choose to forget their own childhood experience and learning. They are all in the rush.
Rush to teach child to talk, to walk, to read; rush child to 101 enrichment classes, music, painting, drama and speech, gyms, you can just name it; rush child to all kind of activities, concert, Bible action group, Girl scout and boy scouts…. No wonder out timetables are just too full.
Prof David Elkind observed this trend
“Hurried children are forced to take on the physical, psychological and social trappings of adulthood before they are prepared to deal with them. We dress our children in miniature adult costumes, often with designer labels, we expose them to gratuitous sex and violence, and we expect them to cope with an increasingly bewildering social environment- divorce, single parenthood, homosexuality. Through all these pressures, the child senses that it is important for him or her to cope without admitting the confusion and pain that accompanies such changes. Like adults, they are made to feel they must be survivors, and surviving means adjusting- even if the survivors is only six or eight years old.”
Are you one of these parents who are constantly rushing your children? Please quiet down. Give some time for children to grow and they need time. Have you ever thought children need time to grow? They are not brand new computer waiting to be filled into all kinds of data. Their cognitive, physical, emotional and personality development as a whole take all the time of childhood to be developed.
Take time to play, take time to pray, take time to make mistake then correct it take time to enjoy these precious childhood.
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