Motherhood has given me many gifts. In addition to my daughter, who is undoubtedly the greatest gift, being a mother has given me wisdom, patience and experience, and has given me the opportunity to see the world again through the new and innocent eyes of my daughter.
But also, motherhood has given me love, although not that love to which we are accustomed, but to a bigger and more powerful one, a love that only who we are mothers and fathers can feel, give and receive. And is that There is no more pure, tender and sincere love, like the one your children have when they are little.
Love of mothers and fathers
Yes, as you can guess today's article goes in the most cheesy and sensitive sense you can imagine. I don't know what motherhood has done to me, that now this about talking about love and all those wonders that you live when you have children is so natural to me.
To be a little clearer, I will try to define something for which I often run out of words and I have a hard time explaining to my friends without children. And is that when we become mothers and fathers, we automatically "unlock" a new level of love. One that until then was unknown to us.
In Babies and more I am not, nor do I want to be the same as before having children We realize that Now we are capable of loving to the bone, even giving life itself. We feel how our hearts overflow with the love and love we have for those little people who have become part of our lives.
And in the same way, we discover another type of love: that of our children towards us, which is precisely what I want to talk to you about today, because There is no more pure, tender and sincere love, like the one your children have when they are little.
The love of children when they are little
Did you ever see your baby and you wondered how it is possible to feel so much love for something so tiny? Surely yes, especially during those first months in which you look at his eyes and you have to contain that desire to eat him with kisses.
Well, just as you feel that love for that little one, he also looks at you, his entire world and gives you all that great innocent, pure and unconditional love. And during the first years of our children, that love begins to manifest itself in different ways.
Sometimes it's a caress, some little hands taking your face, little little arms around your neck, other times it's A look full of innocence and illusion, a "I love you mommy / daddy" with the sweetest voice your ears have heard, or that warm hug that says "don't go" when you sleep next to him.
And that's how you can feel, in the front row and in your own flesh, the greatest and purest love in the world: what your children give you in their early years. That is why it is important to enjoy them when they are still small, because they will only be children once.
In Babies and more That strange moment when they are 2 or 3 years old when you don't want them to grow up and you want them to get olderI know that sometimes enjoying motherhood is something easier said than done, because with fatigue, the unveiled, the infinite list of things to do, the odyssey that sometimes represents leaving home and the occasional tantrum of our children, sometimes we wish to grow internally, because we want everything to be simpler and to understand those arguments that are so logical to us and difficult to understand for them.
But you have to enjoy those early years, not only because they fly by, but because it's the years when our children turn to see us and for them, we are their whole world, their home, their safe place. And it is when we live the most tender, beautiful and innocent love we can find.
Love remains, but evolves
Now, I don't want to imply that once our children stop being children or become adults they don't love us anymore. Love is still there, not lost or reduced, simply change to a different, more mature and perhaps less dependent love, but just as real and sincere. Although that moment will definitely come when you ask yourself: when did you grow up so much, baby?
So if you still have small children, don't be afraid to hug them and punch them out, because time flies. And although the love between parents and children remains, no doubt never again be as pure, tender, innocent and sincere as that of those early childhood years.
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