As a parent, you do so much to teach your children how to be good people, yet most of the time it feels like all your hard work goes unnoticed and all the important lessons you try to teach go in one ear and out the other.
All parents have felt like this at one point or another, and TV star Joanna Gaines, who co-stars on the hit HGTV show Fixer Upper with her husband Chip, is sharing some wise parenting advice after a heartwarming interaction with her daughter reminded her that kids absorb everything we do even if they don’t look like their watching or listening.
On her Facebook page, Gaines shared a photo she quickly snapped of her daughter Emmy after she walked past her bedroom and noticed her staring out the window at an Adonis blue butterfly bush. “I planted by the girl’s window almost five years ago when we were renovating the farmhouse,” she explained. “I wanted butterflies by the girl’s windows that they could see and enjoy.”
“I never told them about the bush and honestly I forgot about it over the years,” Gaines wrote. “This morning I found my little Emmie sitting by her window looking excitedly at the bush and saying ‘Here she is! My little hummingbird comes every morning mom!’ First, I didn’t know she looked out for her bird every morning. Second, I forgot all about the bush and never told her if she looked out the window she would see the prettiest butterflies and hummingbirds gathered around it.”
“It’s hard not to think this is a lot like parenting… You sow seeds early on and work hard to be intentional and then over time you move on to new lessons and challenges. Then one day you look up and the seeds you planted in your little children’s hearts are now in full bloom,” Gaines wrote in the post that has struck a chord with parents and has been shared over 76,000 times.
“Be encouraged today to keep pressing in and tending to their hearts. It will be worth it.”
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[Featured image: Facebook/Joanna Gaines]
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