no but seriously it’s very important to a child’s development to not be shut down by parents and other caregive

• “Eat” the damn Play-doh cookies.
• Slurp the invisible soup.
• Pretend that they’re not causing grievous bodily harm as they “brush” your hair.
• Always be serious when asked what you’d like for dinner, and never say something silly like rabbit soup. Because they will go get their stuffed one off the bed, put it in your best pot, and fill said pot with water. Then place it on your desk.
• Greet their make believe friends and ask how their day was.
• Always kiss the teddy bear goodnight. It has feelings too.
• Always pretend to die when they shoot you.
• If you are having a fake war with them and you shoot them and they say they can’t die because they are invincible, you don’tshoot them again, because they are invincible.
• Yes, their drawing does look like a butterfly, not a bunch of jumbled up lines.
• Them pounding on the piano is the best thing you have ever heard.

— Peregrine

“Just as a child knows
a favored toy in the least detail,
with instant longing
and with desperate need
from the moment it is gone
until the time it comes again to hand,
your lips against my throat.”

There is nothing sadder

“There is nothing sadder than a child who has barely seen the world, yet who has seen enough of it to know that they do not wish to be a part of it.”

— Johnny Depp

“I suppose nowadays it’s all a question of surgery, isn’t it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.”

Who can protect her better than we?

Who can protect her better than we? 

There is one person.

A child of the age of six years

“A child of the age of six years laughs about three times more than an adult.”

daddy makes the perfect bun

omg this is the cutest thing

What happened when strangers saw a little boy shivering outside without a coat.

What happened when strangers saw a little boy shivering outside without a coat. See the full video here.

i don't care if you don't like me.

first time experiencing rain

Kayden’s first time experiencing rain

Your child will follow

“Your child will 

follow your example, 

not your advice.”

«There will be books written about Harry, every child in our world will know his name.»

The Cleveland Browns need to sign this guy.

"i almost had a heartattack!"

The picture below is not for sensitive people. 

dream dreamer dream =)

Baby thinks she can eat food from the magazine

Baby thinks she can eat food from the magazine

My time is priceless, use it wisely or someone else will

Mistakes mean you are trying and that is never wrong.

One of the things I’ve really focused on as a parent is making sure my kids know that making lots of mistakes is the best way to learn something new. If you get something on the first try it might be exciting, but you haven’t really learned anything. This is definitely something I was not taught as a child, unfortunately, which made me averse to trying anything new out of a fear of failure. It’s taken me a long time to retrain my thoughts to not take errors as huge blows to my self-confidence.

My kids deserve better. All kids deserve better. ~JJ

you can't open it until Christmas

Good reminder that every expert started out as an amateur