Bonding with Your Cherished Children
By Linda Davis-Kyle
Today, ubiquitous unsavory incentives and unnecessary diversions steal away beautiful memory-making family times. Have some of your long-trusted family ties seemed to vanish? Have you entered what sometimes feels like an inescapable revolving door? Have you felt alone and bewildered in this whirlwind world? Have you lost time to read classic literature together or to study the holy scriptures, worship, or pray? Have you noticed others who seem to be reflecting your same experiences?
Distracted moments turn into lost hours and lost days. Blink twice and the precious ones here today are gone tomorrow. Do you need a nurturing and confidence-building approach to bond with your cherished children? Are you looking for a way to get back on track to champion their thoughts, beliefs, and dreams and to be their most trusted, but silent and unnoticed, mentor?
Answers may be nearer than you think. Have you given space in your life and in your abode for precious pets? If so, then good luck is just around the next corner and is hastening to help. Indeed, soon your dogs or cats or rabbits will be scampering in or your ponies or horses will be galloping forth as silent helpers. Well, sometimes they aren’t so silent. Nevertheless, as I said in Writing about Your Pets #1, to encourage parents, homeschoolers, and teachers to bond with their ’tweens and teens, “Pets, in a way, are our greatest teachers. Write about how your pets are happy just to be with you. To sit with you in silence, to ride along with you, to walk or run with you, or to play with no regrets about yesterday and no frets about tomorrow—that’s your happy pet modeling the beautiful concept of living in the moment.”
Undeniably, pets gratefully accept whatever moments are given to them. They do not toss away today with worries. Neither do they throw away tomorrow with negative thoughts. Pets are like enlightened teachers, who have studied far and wide and have learned to guide us by their honest words, good works, noble intentions, and honorable traditions. As we care for our pets, they not only demonstrate how to live in the moment, but also they show us unconditional love which is a mostly missing commodity on planet Earth.
So, if you and your pre-teens or teens share a common bond that treasures your pets, then let your pets, their antics, behaviors, characteristics, and daily habits become the topics for fun writing adventures that you can share. Writing about Your Pets #1 offers a bountiful array of writing prompts, questions, suggestions, and ideas to help you get started. Enjoy a quiet time together, for just a bit each evening, or as often as possible, to select a topic that your young writers-in-the-making choose to tackle. Chat about the many ways to explore and conquer each chosen prompt. Make sure your ’tweens or teens feel heard and seen and adored and can go away, with your blessing, to write until their hearts are content. On your next evening, or earliest chance, listen with complete attention while your young writer reads aloud the masterpiece composed the night before.
Soon, you will find that your confidence-boosting and thought-provoking times together become better and better. In fact, you can help your young writers to sort through and solve any worries, challenges, or threats that they may have needed to tell you about earlier but felt you had no time for them. Now, with a renewed trust in you, they can adopt you as a quiet, unseen mentor. They will feel empowered.
Getting families together, in the short term, to share a meeting of minds to recognize and vanquish current problems and to prevent possible oncoming perils is a major objective of Writing about Your Pets #1: Questions & Prompts for ’Tweens, Teens & Beyond. Beyond that effort, an even more important goal is to go forward to help build the habit of creating time to read, to be aware of the potential perils that may challenge the young and their families, and to find answers together that can serve your spirits in good stead in spite of the sometimes distracting, disenchanting, and disorienting times of today.
I admire all pets; and through the years I have shared home and hearth with a menagerie of dogs, cats, rabbits, canaries, parakeets, guppies, goldfish, colorful tropical fishes of many species, and turtles. In addition, I treasured my precious maternal and paternal grandfathers for their care of animals—my maternal grandfather’s glorious golden palominos, herds of dairy cattle, abundant turkeys, and other well-cared for farm animals and my paternal grandfather’s well-treated cattle, wealth of chickens, and other farm animals, as well. Also, just so you will know, the smart and cuddly cat, who appears on the Pets #1 cover sat in my lap and helped to calm the rush of time and constant distractions, so that I finally could share these words with you. I truly hope my heartfelt words voiced here and in Pets #1 can bring good tidings all across our world with their sincere hope for peace and better times to come.
Linda Davis-Kyle, of WritingNow.com, is an internationally published health and fitness and general interest writer who has been published in Canada, the United States, the Netherlands Antilles, Ireland, England, Bulgaria, South Africa, Bahrain, Qatar, Bangladesh, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand in professional journals such as Modern Drama in Canada, Bulletin of Bibliography in Great Britain, Caritas in Ireland, and Studies in English Literature in Japan and in award-winning publications such as Chem Matters, Martial Arts Training, WellBeing, and World Travel Magazine.
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