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[bodytext] => Be his mate. Eat cottage cheese together with no hands. Pick wild berries together. Shiver with him at a football match. Walk with him into the woods so that he can sketch trees. Listen to the sound of the ocean in a conch shell. Create wonder. Soak up some extra memories together. Simply be there for him. Teach him a sense of his own space. Listen to the voices of the January wind together. Forgive him. Forgive yourself. Take a peddle-boat out to sea and challenge him to swim ashore. Buy him his first diary. Show him the tree you climbed as a child. Eat hot-dogs at the beach in the winter. Play hide-and-seek at the swimming pool. Always have an out-of-reach cabinet. Take him camping for the first time. Learn from him. Watch him holding a rabbit. It will fill you with awe. Let him write his name on the wall before you paper. Create secret signals that only the pair of you know. Collect pine cones for no other reason than to collect pine cones. Wear matching boxers. Learn when to say no. Learn when to say yes. And say yes more often. Wrestle in a pile of wet leaves. Sit and watch those high, grey November clouds together. Let him know he’s loved. Really loved. Teach him about rocking chairs. That there are more memories in them than any other piece of furniture. On holiday, check out a foreign grocery store together. Make choosing a Christmas tree together a family tradition. Buy him a children’s thesaurus. Teach him about sunken treasure. Realise just how healing he can be when times are tough. Teach him that practice, determination and giving his best will always make a difference. Allow him to dance with a street busker. Read quietly together every night. When unsure, believe him. Have breakfast by the window on the morning of his first snowfall. Shed a little tear to yourself upon hearing he packed your family photo for a sleepover. Realise just how lucky you really are. Hold hands at every opportunity. You’re never closer to God than when holding the hand of your child.
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How to Really Love a Little Boy
Contributed by
karl_wiggins
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Wednesday, 3rd March 2004 @ 07:09:58 PM in AEST
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Be his mate. Eat cottage cheese together with no hands. Pick wild berries together. Shiver with him at a football match. Walk with him into the woods so that he can sketch trees. Listen to the sound of the ocean in a conch shell. Create wonder. Soak up some extra memories together. Simply be there for him. Teach him a sense of his own space. Listen to the voices of the January wind together. Forgive him. Forgive yourself. Take a peddle-boat out to sea and challenge him to swim ashore. Buy him his first diary. Show him the tree you climbed as a child. Eat hot-dogs at the beach in the winter. Play hide-and-seek at the swimming pool. Always have an out-of-reach cabinet. Take him camping for the first time. Learn from him. Watch him holding a rabbit. It will fill you with awe. Let him write his name on the wall before you paper. Create secret signals that only the pair of you know. Collect pine cones for no other reason than to collect pine cones. Wear matching boxers. Learn when to say no. Learn when to say yes. And say yes more often. Wrestle in a pile of wet leaves. Sit and watch those high, grey November clouds together. Let him know he’s loved. Really loved. Teach him about rocking chairs. That there are more memories in them than any other piece of furniture. On holiday, check out a foreign grocery store together. Make choosing a Christmas tree together a family tradition. Buy him a children’s thesaurus. Teach him about sunken treasure. Realise just how healing he can be when times are tough. Teach him that practice, determination and giving his best will always make a difference. Allow him to dance with a street busker. Read quietly together every night. When unsure, believe him. Have breakfast by the window on the morning of his first snowfall. Shed a little tear to yourself upon hearing he packed your family photo for a sleepover. Realise just how lucky you really are. Hold hands at every opportunity. You’re never closer to God than when holding the hand of your child.
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Re: How to Really Love a Little Boy
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by Kie on
Wednesday, 3rd March 2004 @ 11:37:04 PM AEST
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| This is one of those poems I am going to love reading over and over. These are the kind I hang on my refrigerator because they are a reminder of things we need to be reminded of. Thank you so much for sharing this one. Kie |
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Re: How to Really Love a Little Boy
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by Former_Member on
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Oh yes, you just love them with every emotion you have inside you from the day they are born till the day you die. There is no love stronger. You are a lucky man to realize that.
Rita |
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Re: How to Really Love a Little Boy
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by Archie on
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| I promise if I ever have a son I will keep a copy of your poem close by so that i can do those things with him. |
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