poems

Sunyshineymummy:

Children Learn What They Live

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

We had this up in the nursery I worked at too

There is one called something like A Child Learns what they Live. They have it up in DS's nursery and we used it at his Naming Ceremony. Goes along the lines of 'If a child lives with praise, they learn tolerance' or some such.

I love the first post - the fathers day one!
I also love the toddler property rules!

In my cloakroom I have a sign:

I hope that my child looking back on today
Remembers a mum who had time to play
Children grow up while you are not looking
There will be years ahead for cleaning and cooking
So quiet now cobwebs, dust go to sleep
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

So every time I go to the toilet/wash dd or mindees hands I am reminded that there's no need for me to do any more housework than the necessary minimum and we go and have a reading session or craft session or play outside or dress up or sing songs etc etc!!!
I do however do lots of cooking but dd/mindees usually involved anyway!

Ayla I loved the poem about the house being untidy because of spending time with the kids. I will copy it for my notice board at home if thats ok with you

A Hundred Years

A hundred years from now......
it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in,
or the kind of car I drove.
But the world will be different
because I was important in the life of a child.

Toddler Property Laws

If I like it, it's mine
If it's in my hand, it's mine
If I can take it from you, it's mine
If I had it a little while ago, it's mine
If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way
If I'm doing something or building something, all the pieces are mine
If it looks like mine, it's mine
If I saw it fist, it's mine
If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine
If it's broken, it's yours

i love poems i just make them up all the time will have to sit down this weekend and make some up for you
but......... boys away tonight till monday camping with cubs so might decide to find other things to do

Does anyone know "It's Mine". Something along the lines of "If I touched it its mine, if I can see it its mine, if I had it yesterday its mine ..."

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I tried to teach my child from books,
He gave me only puzzled looks.
I tried to teach my child with words,
They passed by him often unheard.
Despairingly, I turned aside,
?How shall I teach this child?? I cried.
Into my hand he put the key,
?Come?, he said, ?and play with me.?

Some houses try to hide the fact that children shelter there.
Ours boasts of it quite openly, the signs are everywhere.
For smears are on the windows, little smudges on the doors,
I should apologise, I guess, for the toys strewn on the floor.
But I sat down with the children, and we played and laughed and read,
and if the doorbell doesn't shine, their eyes will shine instead.
For when at times, I'm forced to choose the one job or the other...
I want to have a tidy house, but FIRST I'll be a mother.

Does anyone know the one that goes

when im born im black
when i tan im black
when im sick im black
when i die im black
when your born your pink
when you tan your brown
when your sick your green
and you have the cheek to call me coloured!

Because I know im nearly there but theres some missing and id love to have it all.

Shosha they're lovely

And Mothers day

To Mummy

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls
But every day I'm growing up
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away
So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small

One for fathers day

Walk a little slower daddy
said the child so small
I?m following your example,
and I don?t want to fall?

Sometimes your steps are very fast,
Sometimes they are hard to see
So walk a little slower daddy
For you are leading me

Someday when I?m all grown up
You?re what I want to be
Then I will have a little child
Who?ll want to follow me

And I want to lead just right
And I know that I was true
So walk a little slower Daddy
For I must follow you