Patience – A Lesson My Child Taught Me
Parenting, I’ve realized, is less about teaching and more about learning.
In the early days, I would get so worked up watching my daughter mix all her paint colours into a brownish mush, splattering it across the paper—and sometimes, her face and hands. I would cringe at the mess, the stained clothes, the stickiness of it all. “Why can’t she just stick to the colouring book?” I’d ask myself.
But one day, something shifted.
I watched her dip her fingers into the red, then yellow, then blue. She wasn’t just painting—she was exploring. She was learning how red turns orange, how paint feels on skin, how colours mix to create new ones. It was all sensory play: touch, sight, even smell. It was art. It was science. It was joy.
And I was the one who was missing the point.
She wasn’t making a mess—she was making meaning.
From that day on, I began to pause before reacting. I began to see her world, not through my lens of order, but through hers of discovery. I learned to breathe, smile, and let it be.
She taught me patience, not by preaching it—but by living it. And I’m truly grateful for that lesson.
Tell me—what’s something your child has unknowingly taught you? Let’s talk in the comments.
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