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Remember: we are raising children, not flowers.

David, my next-door neighbor, has two young kids ages five and seven, One day he was teaching his seven-year-old son Kelly how to push the gas-powered lawn mower around the yard. As he was teaching him how to ruen the mower around at eh end of the lawn, his wife, Jan, called to him to ask a question. Ad David turned to answer the question, Kelly pushed the oawn mower right through the flower bed at the edge of the lawn- leaving a two -foot wde path levelled to the ground!

When David turned back around and saw what had happened, hebegan to lose control,David had put a lot of the neighborhood. Ad he began to raise his voice to his son, Jan walked quickly over to him, put her hand on his shoulder and said, "David, please remember, we're raising children, notflowers."

Jan reminded me how important it is as a parent to remember our priorities, Kids and their self-esteem are more important than any physical object they might break or destroy, The window pane shattered by a baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate droped in the kitchen are already broken, The flowers are already dead, I must remember not to add to the destruction by breaking a child's spirit and deadening his sense of liveliness.