It’s the month of love… and it is so interesting to hear what your childrens thoughts on love are. Here’s some of the best below! The answers were broad and deep… Ask your kids what they think!
“Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.” – Karl – age 5
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” – Chrissy – age 6
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”- Terri – age 4
“Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.” – Danny – age 7
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mummy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss” – Emily – age 8
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Bobby – age 7 (Wow!)
“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.” – Nikka – age 6 (We need a few million more Nikkas on this planet)
“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.” – Noelle – age 7
“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.”- Tommy – age 6
“During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.” – Cindy – age 8
“My mummy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.” – Clare – age 6
“Love is when Mummy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.” – Elaine-age 5
“Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.” – Chris – age 7
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” – Mary Ann – age 4
“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.” – Lauren – age 4
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” (what an image) – Karen – age 7
“Love is when Mummy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.” – Mark – age 6
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”- Jessica – age 8
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That is so sweet: you need to read things like this when you are having a very bad week.
Love can be a wonderful thing and yet lots of people find it so hard to talk about and yet we want our children our future to be loving caring thoughtful people, without LOVE they will not be.
The children will always giggle when the word is mentioned but once you talk to them about things they love and things they love about each other they can become more understanding of the meaning and not as giggly.
Playing games and being creative with Love is a great theme to have running within the Nurture Group. We have a huge cuddly heart which we pass around as a talking stick but also use to hug as an anchor, some children will hide behind it to speak. Choosing someone to pass the love too has a huge impact on the children and can take sometime for them to do the children are encouraged to look at their friends and think of something that they love about them it may be their hair or their shoes or even their smile. Having them say I love your bobble can be extended by asking WHY I love your bobble because it’s pink. This is great for extending a Childs vocabulary and language skills. If a child is missed out by the end I will always pick up on this and think of something for them. Passing around the cushion and saying I Love me is another game we play also thinking of food we love places we love all brings a new light to the word for the children and therefore encourages them to love not only themselves but others too extremely important in this Chaotic world. Using heart shaped post it notes or heart stickers we are able to share the love by giving a sticker to someone else in the group kids love if they end up with a jumper covered on heart shapes to let everyone see, I have even given them love to take home for someone at home that they love in the form of a sticker.
I would not attempt such sessions without having worked with the children using Relax Kids to of already had them in a more confident position to speak out within the group. Visualisations that I would use at the end of the sessions would be mind mail, floating, treasure chest and many more.
Mel, I’ve said it once but I’ll say it again:
You’re awesome! The kids are so lucky to have you in their lives. x
What you said about people not wanting to talk about it is so interesting – I’ve found that too. What’s funny is that although people don’t always want to share their own experiences of love, we’re always very curious to hear about other people’s!!! I’m working on a little idea I’ve called “The Love Project” and I video chats with people about what love means to them and what they love in their lives – I want to add to it over the years, so if you ever feel like doing a skype chat (or maybe even video if I make it over to England this year!) let me know! You can watch what I’ve done already here: http://www.emmagrantwilliams.com/loveproject xx
Fantastic Emma I dont do Skype but whole site looks fab lets join the love train and spread some love x
We had these read out at our wedding – they made everyone smile. It was a lovely alternative to a reading. Marneta and Stuart