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    Gifts to Our Children
    Gifts to Our Children
    Gifts to Our Children
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    Gifts to Our Children

    By Merry Mary

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    It is said that the best things in life are free (and indeed they are). As you consider the best of gifts for your children, I want to introduce you to gifts that will not cost a penny and that will open the fountain of happiness and unlock unlimited potential in your child. These are the things that we can give simply by being alert to the way that we live our lives and the way we raise our children, remembering that even the slightest influence goes a long way in shaping their future.

    You will be a present and conscious parent as you do the following:

    Strive to set an example that models what you would want for your child
    Encourage the cultivation of qualities that are guaranteed to ensure your childs happiness
    Invest time in being a parent to your child

    This piece of work will save you from seeing in hindsight what you could have and should have done to ensure your children find happiness as they grow and when they are grown.

    You will know the gifts that matter and give them when it matters!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9781477241998
    Gifts to Our Children
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    Merry Mary

    Merry Mary is a parent, prompted by the love of her child and all other children in the world to speak out for children, to fight for them when it matters most—when they are young and at the mercy of their adult parents and guardians. Her great love for all humanity is the push behind her goal of trying to make the world a better place one word at a time.

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      Gifts to Our Children - Merry Mary

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012 by Merry Mary. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/05/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-3144-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-4199-8 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Unless otherwise stated, whenever the masculine gender is used, both men and women are included.

      Contents

      1. Introduction

      2. The gift of unconditional love

      3. The gift of self-love

      4. The gift of self-esteem

      5. The gift of beauty

      6. The gift of self-knowledge

      7. The gift of responsibility

      8. The gift of gratitude

      9. The gift of thrift

      10. The gift of joy and laughter

      11. The gift of hard work

      12. The gift of parenting

      13. The gift of God

      14. In conclusion

      15. Appendix

      About the author

      About the book

      Dedicated to all children and prescribed for all parents.

      With gratitude to God, the enabler of all things, my parents, for life and this pack of genes, and to my son, for giving me the joy of parenting, the best gift I ever received.

      Introduction

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      The great gift of life

      It’s a boy! It’s a girl! And it’s celebrations galore as we welcome the new bundle of joy into the cosmos. Even if the birth of your child was not planned, somehow you can’t escape noticing the miracle that it is to conspire with the universe to bring forth another living, breathing little human. The moment that a newborn comes into this world is special. It is special because it is new, and all new things are special to us. Special too, because it is a beginning: the beginning of so many more years of life to this wonderful little being that we behold. It is the beginning of a journey that will be filled with joy and wonderful memories or a belaboured and robotic existence that will be fraught with fatigue and apathy. The journey will be determined, to a large extent, by the designer of the map that the child shall follow as he tries to make his way in the world.

      The child is now in your hands. And guess what? The pen to draft the map is as well.

      Gifts to our children

      The first gift that we give to our children is that of birth. Thereafter, we give many more. Our goal: to make our children happy.

      We spare no resources when it comes to getting gifts for our children. We invest considerable time in identifying the perfect present. We rush to beat deadlines of birthdays and holidays.

      These material things we give are symbols of the immense love we have for our children. They signify how much we wish them happiness and satisfaction. They attest to the fact that, as parents, our children’s happiness is ours too.

      And so as the years advance, our children have much to show for the gifts we have given them: photos where they are playing with their favourite toys, hobbies developed from using some of these gifts, book collections, wardrobes that make a statement, logbooks of cars, certificates of sponsored courses, and title deeds of properties.

      All good, but do these really guarantee a lifetime of happiness?

      How do we give gifts that matter? In the first place, which gifts matter?

      The most important of gifts are those things that we can’t touch and where there are no certificates to confirm what we have bequeathed. They are gifts of being. They are the things that we pass on to our children that make them live fully and enjoy the journey of life, rather than merely exist and then die. Most of the time we are not even aware that we are giving these gifts or denying them because these are gifts that we bequeath simply

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