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Mothers and Kids. Mothers and Kids.
\nYour children are not your children.
\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life\u2019s longing for itself.
\nThey come through you but not from you,
\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
\nYou may give them your love but not your thoughts,
\nFor they have their own thoughts.
\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,
\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
\nYou may strive to be like them,
\nbut seek not to make them like you.
\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
\nYou are the bows from which your children
\nas living arrows are sent forth.
\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
\nand He bends you with His might
\nthat His arrows may go swift and far.
\nLet your bending in the archer\u2019s hand be for gladness;
\nFor even as He loves the arrow that flies,
\nso He loves also the bow that is stable.
\nAnanda: It is an odd development of the modern world that being excessively anxious about our children is considered a virtue. We consider ourselves good parents if we make life easy for them, reward them for the smallest achievement, and are anxious for their safety and well-being at all times.
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\nYour children are not your children.
\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
\nThey come through you but not from you,
\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
\nYou may give them your love but not your thoughts,
\nFor they have their own thoughts.
\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,
\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
\nYou may strive to be like them,
\nbut seek not to make them like you.
\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
\nYou are the bows from which your children
\nas living arrows are sent forth.
\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
\nand He bends you with His might
\nthat His arrows may go swift and far.
\nLet your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
\nFor even as He loves the arrow that flies,
\nso He loves also the bow that is stable.
\nAnanda: It is an odd development of the modern world that being excessively anxious about our children is considered a virtue. We consider ourselves good parents if we make life easy for them, reward them for the smallest achievement, and are anxious for their safety and well-being at all times.
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