When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator,
and I wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you feed a stray cat,
and I thought it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you make my favorite cake for me,
and I knew that little things are special things.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I heard you say a prayer,
and I believed there is a God I could always talk to.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I felt you kiss me goodnight,
and I felt loved.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw tears come from your eyes,
and I learned that sometimes things hurt,
but it's all right to cry.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw that you cared,
and I wanted to be everything that I could be.
When you thought I wasn't looking,
I looked . . . .
and wanted to say thanks
for all the things I saw

When you thought
I wasn't looking.
~~Author Unknown

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody

This is the story about four People: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important Job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it!

Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.

"Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you." — Robert Fulghum, 20th-century American author

"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it." — Proverbs, 22:6

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." — Kahlil Gilbran

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." — John Locke, 17th-century English philosopher

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." — Peter de Vries

"But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly." — Plato, ancient Greek philosopher

"Children need models rather than critics." — Joseph Joubert

"It takes a long time to grow young." — Pablo Picasso, 20th-century Spanish artist

"It takes a whole village to raise a child." — Ashanti proverb

“Educate the heart. Let us have good men.'' — Hiram Powers

“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.'' — Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher

“The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but ‘Whom do I want to be like?’ ” — Bruno Bettelheim, 20th -century German/American child psychologist, author

“Example has more followers than reason.” — Bovee

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” — Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 20th-century American military figure

"If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children." — Mohandas Gandhi, 20th-century, Nobel Prize-winning, Indian nonviolent civil rights leader