[nukkad] Day Brightners!

["Ragini Chaturvedi" <raginic@hotmail.com>]

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Following short poem can wake up a lot of us who are still rasing
 our young children.
 
 
             If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again
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 If I had my child to raise all over again,
 I'd finger-paint more, and point the fingers less.
 I would do less correcting and more connecting.
 I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
 I would care to know less and know to care more.
 I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
 I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
 I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
 I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
 I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
 I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
 I'd teach less about the love of power,
 And more about the power of love.
 
 By Diane Loomans



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