Wrapping It Up

It's time to wrap up another course, one that I have really enjoyed! I want to begin by sharing an amazing website that was sent to me at work today. I wanted to share it because it has great resources that might help everyone as they continue their journey toward a graduate degree!  It is from the National Office of Child Care, The National Office of Children in Poverty, The National Administration for Children and Families, The Office of Planning, Research and Education and Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The site is:

http://www.researchconnections.org/content/childcare/find

I have so many favorite quotes that it is hard to pick just a few to share!  Here are a few ...

While we try to teach our children all about life

Our children teach us what life is all about

~Angela Schwindt 

 

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing!

~Phyllis Diller

There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

~Walt Streighttiff.  

 

Cleaning and cooking can wait 'til tomorrow,

For babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep,

I'm rocking my baby,

And babies don't keep.

~Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

The reason that I chose these four quotes is that I have been reflecting a lot lately on how quickly children grow! There are approximately 2000 days between the day a child is born and the day they start kindergarten, and the foundation for everything they are going to become happens in those first years. Stopping what we are doing to see the world through the eyes of a child is the most valuable gift we can give to ourselves and the children in our lives.