When the child sees, things MORE clearly than his own adult counterparts, and so, STOP waving your children’s thoughts off as, unimportant there! Translated…
Because of her work, my best friend travels a lot, she’d run to and from, one city to another, and another, and another. Thankfully, her husband is more than supportive of her work, and, their division of tasks of the household became, “Man in Charge of the House, Woman in Charge OUTSIDE of Home”. And so, every time my best friend made it home, her son would do whatever he could, to stay close to her side, hoping, to get more time with his mother.
Recently, she’d had a huge fight with her husband, it wasn’t anything major, and they’d, made nice already soon enough. But her son told her in private, “Mom, you’re fighting with dad because you two can’t see the good qualities that each other has. If you two can see the better qualities in one another, then, you two wouldn’t, fight anymore. But, I can understand mom too, because you are rarely at home, you can’t see dad’s better qualities, this is, normal.”
My friend said, she felt, SHOT by lightning then, felt, that her son was the one who’d “pointed out the way” to her. And, as I’d heard my friend shared this, it’d made me moved—that an eleven-year-old young lad can take another’s perspectives, it’d served as a reminder for us, adults: to see each other’s better qualities, and I’m sure, that there would be, a whole lot less conflicts in a marriage!
And so, the son’s words are a wakeup call to the mother, because she’s rarely at home, and so, she couldn’t see her own husband’s good qualities, and the son pointed it out, and this young lad is only eleven, and this still just showed, how much MORE intelligent your children ARE compared to you, but we often overlook that, because we are older, with MORE life experiences, and therefore, we’re more, intelligent, and that, is our, blind spots as, adults!
Life, the Obstacle Course 