21 MEMOS FROM A CHILD

When I got a high fever and flu, my mom went to my pediatrician for check-up and found a post at the clinic's wall. She found it very interesting and significant for all the parents like her so she jotted down the title and search this via net. Luckily, she found this one.

Hope this would make her understand me more...

Enjoy!!!


21 MEMOS FROM YOUR CHILD

1. Don’t spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not to have all that I ask for. I’m only testing you.

2. Don’t be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it; it makes me feel more secure.

3. Don’t let me form bad habits. I have to rely on you to detect them in the early stages.

4. Don’t make me feel smaller than I am. It only makes me behave stupidly “big”.

5. Don’t correct me in front of people if you can help it. I’ll take much more notice of it if you talk quietly with me in private.

6. Don’t make me feel my mistakes are sins. It upsets my sense of values.

7. Don’t protect me from consequences. I need to learn the painful way, sometimes.

8. Don’t be too upset when I say “I hate you.” It isn’t you I hate but your power to thwart me.

9. Don’t take too much notice of my small ailments. Sometimes they get me the attention I need.

10. Don’t nag. If you do, I shall have to protect myself by appearing deaf.

11. Don’t forget that I cannot explain myself as well as I should like. This is why I’m not always very accurate.

12. Don’t make rash promises. Remember that I feel badly let down when promises are broken.

13. Don’t tax my honesty too much. I am easily frightened into telling lies.

14. Don’t be inconsistent. That completely confuses me and makes me lose faith in you.

15. Don’t tell me my fears are silly. They are terribly real and you can do much to reassure me if you try to understand.



16. Don’t put me off when I ask questions. I you do, you will find that I stop asking and seek my information elsewhere.

17. Don’t ever suggest that you are perfect or infallible. It gives me too great a shock when I discover that you are neither.

18. Don’t ever think it is beneath your dignity to apologize to me. An honest apology makes me feel surprisingly warm toward you.

19. Don’t forget how quickly I am growing up. It must be very difficult to keep pace with me, but please do try.

20. Don’t forget I love experimenting. I couldn’t get on without it, so please put up with it.

21. Don’t forget that I can’t thrive without lots of understanding love, but I don’t need to tell you, do I?

Mother's Day Moments & Qoutes

The Philippines joins the family of nations this MAY 10, 2009 in paying tribute to the blessedness of motherhood on Mother’s Day, honoring mothers for keeping their children the focus of their lives, walking with them through their storms, and being there for them as they face the world in their growing years.

Flowers, chocolate bars, and handmade love notes will stream into ancestral homes of mothers and grandmothers today, which will serve as another festive occasion for family reunions.

In addition to dozens of roses and chocolate bars, popular luxury items such as ladies’ handbags and bottles of perfume are in the long shopping list of children everywhere, young and old, throwing economic caution to the wind as the world salutes “Mother’s Day.”

Here are some quotes for mothers like my mom.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MAMA!!!

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown


It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh


Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. ~John Erskine


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown


Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir


All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage


A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. ~Author Unknown


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey


You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus


Now that... my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you! ~Forest Houtenschil


My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon