15 Things to Do Before Your Children Grow Up
In the rush of everyday life, we don't always realize how time flies. It's amazing how we look at the calendar fixed on the fridge and are surprised by how quickly the pages of the months are taken off. Without warning, the words that children pronounced with adorable phonetic errors in the first years of life began to be spoken perfectly. The diapers, which took up a huge space in the drawers, are gone and won't come back.
Where is that little baby who used to live in our house? It gave way to a beautiful little girl, who with each new phase presents new challenges and joys. And, incredible as it may seem (because it's a huge task to take care of a small child!), we will miss many things that we experience today.
At MagicKids, we imagine that you have the same feeling. Right? That's why we believe you will identify with the list of things we suggest doing before our children grow up:
- Hold him for a whole hour while he rests in your arms (remember that soon his body won't fit in that same space).
- Feel his hand gripping yours tightly, even though it's the size of a pinky finger.
- Smell his hair, trying to forever store in memory that baby smell.
- Make faces and see him laugh. And realize that joy doesn't depend on anything else.
- Let him sleep in your bed on that terribly cold winter night.
- Take him to the beach and spend an entire afternoon collecting seashells.
- Mark his height on the same wall, every passing year.
- Eat chocolate secretly and see him wonder where that delicious smell comes from (poor thing!).
- Invent the most nonsensical story that comes to mind. He won't argue about why "the giraffe entered the UFO to go to grandma's party in the backyard." Also, enjoy the moments of shared reading with the little one.
- Enjoy the title of the smartest mom (or dad) in the universe.
- Play hide and seek and see him with half his body out of the hiding spot, convinced he's very well hidden.
- Have imaginary tea, eat the food from the restaurant he just opened, or play superhero (complete with running around the house with a cape).
- Make his birthday cake with your own hands (take advantage of this phase when he always says it's beautiful, regardless of your skill level for the task).
- Hug him tightly as he leaves school. In a few years, this will be considered "making him feel the most embarrassed in front of his friends."
- Say "I love you" every day! So that he never, not even for a second, stops believing that you'll always be there whenever he needs you.