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Deep Feeling Children

Teeth Many adults confuse "thinking simply" with shallowness. However simple children's thoughts may be, they can be deep feeling children. Two rivers may flow along at the same number of gallons per minute. The one is wide and shallow as it meanders through a flat grassland; the other is narrow and deep. Children appear to be unconcerned but underneath there courses far more depth of feeling than many adults, like the narrow but deep stream. Like most mothers, my wife had told my daughter of eight to be sure and eat all her lunch, and not to waste any of her sandwiches. That day, Jane hadn't been able to finish them all and had thrown part of one away. To our small girl this took on great significance, her feelings ran very deep.

Message from Mouth to Ear A child's growth is a little like the spirals of some gigantic staircase. Beginning at ground level, the developing personality travels upward round and around. At each new level a question may be asked by the child and an answer is given to everyone's satisfaction. Then, when the next level is reached, the little one may well ask the same question again and at the next one enquiring again. To some the assumption would be that the lesson hadn't been learned the first time. In fact, what we are seeing is the learning process. This one step at a time repeated over and over is the road to maturity. So the barrage of questions never ceases on the way to growth.

"A child's growth is like the spirals of a staircase."

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