Elders have much wisdom to share
Often more than children can bare
Valuable words and not too fancy
Fall on ears of those too antsy
But lessons learned not a total waste
Mindtools emerge as a copy/paste
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin
Eugenia
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Very good! I have witnessed this in my own kids. Of course, I ALWAYS listened to my parents 🙂
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Thank you for your kind comments. Yeah, me too – right!
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so then as before
again
we learn
we spurn
rose glasses
produce the fallacies
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Excellent addition. Thank you!
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Very thoughtful!
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Thank you.
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So very true. We have so much to share.. they just don’t recognize wisdom when they hear it … ha! Diane
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I love your comment, Diane. Thank you.
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Very clever in the manner in which it covers the subject. “The wisdom of the elders” hasn’t been embraced for a long long time now. Sad but true. “Cut and paste” mind tools emerging later in life has certainly been true in my own life!
xx,
mgh
(Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMore dot com)
– ADD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder –
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Thank you, Madelyn. I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
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I find it amazing that I now appreciate all the drumming of wisdom my parents did – I sure didn’t back then. Now with my children, we’ll just have to wait and see. Good poem
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Yes, I think as we get older we are more in tune with the reasons why we were told what to do and what not to do. Things my parents told me make sense now. I think it comes with maturity.
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Great idea!
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Thank you.
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