Parenting is hard. Sometimes living the best life on a budget has it’s work cut out for you.. and it may seem like more than you can handle. Yet we are working to provide for our family. When looking for deals don’t get caught up in stuff.
Just stop and pause and soak in the following words.
This is a great reminder when your kids want stuff!
“Your Children will make many demands
upon your time and energy.
“Do this for us.
Buy this for us.”
They believe that these things are what they want from you.
And you may begin
to believe it too.
But what they really want
is your innnermost heart,
given in vulnerable,honest love.
This is not given
by doing or buying.
The more you do,
the less gets done.
The more you buy
the less you have.
But if you reveal
your true nature,
you provide them everything.
Of course there are times,
when I do for my children.
It is often my great pleasure.
But the things remembered,
the treasured moments
of sacred time,
have occurred
in the quiet
of gentle conversation,
and honest sharing.”
This is from the book The Parent’s Tao Te Ching.
What a great reminder right?