One of my favorite lifestyle bloggers, LoveTaza, posted about this article about hurrying up: The Day I Stopped Saying 'Hurry Up'.
Written by Rachel Macy Stafford, this article specifically address the need to hurry children up. She writes about her own children and how opposite her daughters were to her. She always had the need to tell them to 'hurry up' to fit everything she wanted to do in her busy agenda.
Like she says, when we hurry, we are hurrying life. And today that is what happens. We don't make time to do things, whether it be shopping, hiking, eating, relaxing, or enjoying a large backyard. Yeah, we make time to clean our houses, to feed, to run our errands, and do homework, but that is not the essence of living. Not that shopping is an essence of living, but we're not enjoying what is around us or the time we have with people.
I guess the perfect example of such things is the growth of a child. When a child reaches a certain age they are ready to be on their own and figure the world out themselves. Also children becoming teenagers have the upmost need to separate from their parents.
The similarities of children and hurrying them is that we're trying too hard to get them to grow up quickly. We're tossing them into the adult life at an early age. I think it's because adults have forgotten the importance of how noticing everything around them.
Live a little.
Cheers,
Claire
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