Comments on: Waiting Game http://kellyballard.com/articles/2008/08/21/waiting-game/ KellyBallard.com BLOG Tue, 03 May 2011 14:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Chris Cade | Spiritual Stories and Parables http://kellyballard.com/articles/2008/08/21/waiting-game/#comment-472 Chris Cade | Spiritual Stories and Parables Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:36:47 +0000 http://kellyballard.com/articles/2008/08/21/waiting-game/#comment-472 Amazing the insights kids can bring us simply by being themselves... or even more appropriately, by simply 'being.' My son is only 1 1/2 years old, not speaking English (at least not that we understand), yet every day I feel like I continue to learn from him. I don't know who said it, or even if I'm quoting it correctly, but I heard something that goes along these lines: We don't bring children into the world to teach them, they come into the world to teach us. Brilliant yet elegant. :) Amazing the insights kids can bring us simply by being themselves… or even more appropriately, by simply ‘being.’

My son is only 1 1/2 years old, not speaking English (at least not that we understand), yet every day I feel like I continue to learn from him.

I don’t know who said it, or even if I’m quoting it correctly, but I heard something that goes along these lines:

We don’t bring children into the world to teach them, they come into the world to teach us.

Brilliant yet elegant. :)

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