When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.
Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Look at life with the eyes of a child.
Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.