Just my opening blog statement: I have three little girls, Olivia, Isobel and Sophie. You will not meet a prouder dad in Ireland I can assure you of that. My wife is Andrea and how important she is to me she will never know. I wanted to get all that off my chest at the start as no matter what happens I am hoping that all that will never change.
Tonight, my middle girl Isobel (who is about to turn 6 shortly) and she asked me the question 'why have we got toes?'. It's funny but I could never give them the "easy" answer, 'God made them' or something like that to any question they have ever asked. So I have always tried to engage them in conversation that gets them thinking too.
Understanding 1 ==> If you take the time to explain things to kids they get more inqusitive and this stimulates their minds. The last thing I want to do is raise kids that only accept what they are told and do not question anything.
The other day we took an old steam iron apart. Isobel thought this was really good until later on I have to take the lid off the toilet cistern as it wasn't flushing properly. Guess what? She thought the inner working were 'even more cool', I haven't seen her face light up like that since Christmas.
Understanding 2 ==> Kids just like spending time with you. What they seem to remember is the bond rather than the things that were involved. So getting down on the floor and being a kid is exactly what they want.
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