We ask them too fast...

 We ask them too fast.

We live in a culture that marks them with maturity far sooner than they are ready for.

It’s tablets before words.

It’s travel ball before fundamentals learned.

It’s TikTok before reading time on a clock.

We expect them to handle emotions when they don’t even know how to identify them. We expect them to fully cooperate when we change plans on a whim.

We take away recess time to teach more and more and more. Then ask them to perform and make the score.

We overwhelm them.

It’s constant entertainment. No time to be bored. Here’s one more thing to occupy you, so we can scroll our phones a little more.

It’s short lived magic with eyes that only gleam for a short little while at the Santa Claus scene.

It’s nails and makeup adorned by little girls younger every year.

And don’t forget… there’s no time for tears.

We rush them and shuffle them and ask them for more… than any child is really ready for.

We don’t slow down, we never stop. It’s just hop on the train and then wonder years later how to slow down the clock.

Can we give them a second? A moment to breathe? Let’s go outside and climb up a tree.

Forget the phones. Forget the score. Forget the always wanting more and more.

I want simple for mine. Time to explore. Time to realize what life’s really for.

Just be a child. Make the mess. Let’s enjoy life with a little bit less.

Grow up slower, my little one. There’ll be time for more when your childhood is done.

Adulthood comes quickly, and you’ll live longer there than in your childhood that will be gone like a flare.

We ask them too fast. I want to ask less. Let’s slow down and give them the time to express.

It’s our job as parents, because the world asks too soon for our kids to grow up and lose the childhood at bloom. Let’s help our babies grow up slower and always remind them there will be time for growing up when they’re older.