Nobody told me
I guess I never read this in any parenting book but it seems to be true - when you are the mother of a little girl, playing dollies is a very important part of your existence. Little did I know that when I gave that up as an eight-year-old girl, I didn't give it up for good.
Kathrynne's little babies have been crying and crying the past two days (Kathrynne provides all the sound effects and then responds in a very concerned motherly fashion). In fact, yesterday she couldn't even eat but two bites of lunch because the babies were crying and needed to eat most of her lunch she thought. With two babies, she has her hands quite full - from making sure their diapers are changed, to taking them potty, to feeding them, to keeping them from crying. I finally had to put the dollies to bed so that we could get something done besides calming the terribly fussy babies!
Oh to be a little child again without a care in the world besides caring for your dollies! I am reminded again and again of how Christ says we are to become as little children. There is so much we can learn from observing their contentment, trust, and belief. How I want to emulate that in my relationship with my Heavenly Father.
Kathrynne's little babies have been crying and crying the past two days (Kathrynne provides all the sound effects and then responds in a very concerned motherly fashion). In fact, yesterday she couldn't even eat but two bites of lunch because the babies were crying and needed to eat most of her lunch she thought. With two babies, she has her hands quite full - from making sure their diapers are changed, to taking them potty, to feeding them, to keeping them from crying. I finally had to put the dollies to bed so that we could get something done besides calming the terribly fussy babies!
Oh to be a little child again without a care in the world besides caring for your dollies! I am reminded again and again of how Christ says we are to become as little children. There is so much we can learn from observing their contentment, trust, and belief. How I want to emulate that in my relationship with my Heavenly Father.
posted by Crystal Paine at 10:48 AM
11 Comments:
Crystal~That is so adorable. I wish I still had the ability to be that imaginitave. I often feel that way when I watch my girls playing. Now I happened to play with dolls until I was about 12-13, but still, I miss it :-)
My eldest doesn't play with baby dolls as much as I would like...she likes to be a bit more rough and tumble or playing with horses. But my 3 1/2 year old has been embracing my pregnancy...she says she is expecting too. As a matter of fact if you touch her belly she says you will feel the baby. Now I'm not quite that far along, but it is cute. I had to remind her though that she would not actually have a baby coming out of her when I do..so I plan on getting her a special baby doll so she can continue her nurturing mother play. I can't wait to watch her as I'm nursing, to see what interesting things she comes up with.
Aaaah, children...what a blessing!
Sommer
What a precious story, Crystal! I do not know what it is, but there is something about being a mother and watching your little daughter(s) try and emulate you and nurture their dolls. Makes me laugh at the junk I heard in my American Studies class in freshman year at college, namely that little girls were "conditioned" to play with dolls. LOL I have never personally instructed my girls to play with dolls or to feed them or pretend to diaper them. They do that all on their own!
Kathrynne sounds like a precious, little sweetheart. Indubitably it is on account of such excellent parenting by her dear parents. How blessed we are to be entrusted immortal souls to train for His glory.
In Him,
Christine
that was so sweet!!!! i had to chuckle at the thought of kathrynne not able to eat her lunch becuz of crying babies!
i just want to add, since you mentioned being" under fire" in the press a bit lately that i think you are doing a wonderful job! i check your blog daily. i'm hoping to get mine going well but i don't entertain the thought of writing as well as you!
How adorable and beautiful! What a blessing!
How delightful that she is showing such concern for her "babies"! She clearly has a wonderful example of a caring mother in you and is emulating the love and concern you show her when you are attending to her needs.
Yeah, I was gonna say...you gave up dollies at 8?! Uh-uh...not here. :) I'm with Sommer. lol
Don't you just love it though when they learn those mothering characteristics they see in their mothers or sisters. Way too cute and adorable. :)
Our little Zara is right into playing Mama with her dollies & her soft toys too. Dolly picnics in our lounge room are a particular favourite. As we have always read to both our children from birth, no dolly picnic is complete without a book & some plastic food for each member of her precious "family".
Claire
That is so adorable. I can just pictures Kathrynne doing that and it makes me laugh ;-)
I think I played with dolls etc.. until I was around 8 or 9 to0. My little sister is more into horses though she did the dolls when she was younger. She's 9 now and a horse nut! =D
Sommer: we did that for our little brother when my Mom was expecting my sister. He loved "his" baby.
Hey Crystal...remember the iPod toilet dispenser? Read this!! http://www.myfavouritedolly.com/?cat=3 I thought of you when I read this. :)
Kathrynne's sound effects I'm sure are adorable, too. She's so cute!
I used to think that girls were conditioned to play with dolls. I used to sort of believe it until I saw my little sister. My sister grew up without dolls. We went througha phase where we thought dolls were bad so we got rid of every one of them. My sister had never seen a doll. Having never seen a doll she made "babies" out of everything, spice bottles, potatoes, squash, wrapped in a a rag or blanket. I realized God put a inside desire for a little girl to be a mother and to mother something. We got dolls again after that! She was traumatized when we had to cook the squash or the potatoes!
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