I loved this vignette and I can't resist sharing it with you. It's about the vision of the great Forges about the need of children to tell them stories, that we tell them "things", that we talk to them.
A few days ago we brought you the Universal Declaration of the Rights of children to listen to stories, a right that they themselves would claim on many occasions, as do the children in this vignette.
Sometimes we are so busy with our work or concerned with so many day-to-day issues that we do not realize that as soon as we have any free or relaxing time we do not dedicate it to our children. Not only to tell stories, but simply to tell them anything, as the girl in the drawing says.
Talk to the children, talk about our day to day, their day at school, ask, tell them, express our love, let them talk to us about what they want and listen carefully ... Communication with children is vital since they are Babies, we need to encourage that habit and enrich it by telling stories.
As much as they don't tell us as explicitly as those in the vignette, the children are clear: they want us to tell them stories. It is time to ask ourselves again: do we really have no time for children?
