Little Mirrors

Children are a bit like mirrors for us mothers, I think. How many times have you found yourself looking into a little echo of your own heart and life in the shape of your child?

My little man has his mother’s handicap of result-dependant laziness – of getting easily frustrated and disgusted by less-than-desired results and giving up, prematurely and often in tears.

He is learning to crawl – or, rather, he gets himself halfway across the floor by means of some rather ingenous movements and positional contortions and then gives up, three ‘steps’ from his destination.

I wonder… How often do I give up so close to the goal?

Tags: baby, Mothers, raising children