Tag: habits

Provide for Your Future

Jennifred Jones

The next generation…your kids, your grandkids are your/our future!

Driving home this week I passed many red, yellow and orange maple trees…huge specimens planted decades ago…now towering in beauty!

The planters of these trees are all long gone and cannot enjoy their finale, but we can, because they cared to look ahead.

Past generations of land owners often planted trees for future generations’ benefit, knowing they wouldn’t be ready in their lifetime.

How comforting to realize you had been thought of by previous people and generations who planned and did things not for themselves, but for the good of those to come after them.

I want to be part of the forward thinking generation able to lay up things, ideas, processes, implementations, habits, plans, that will make life better for my successors.

I want to pass that forward to make their lives less complex and easier to enjoy and live while they raise the next members of humanity.

Will you plan with me?

Who You Talking to Mom?

Jennifred Jones

It’s a parental habit developed when the kids are small. You are conversing with them about daily happenings even though they aren’t talking yet…maybe even listening.

The ongoing narrative about what you’re doing, what’s happening next, what’s on your mind as you go about the day.

It’s a form of early learning about the ins-and-outs of family life, whereby from infant-hood on up the kids see (hear) how the family works.

The kids leave home and there’s nobody to talk to….

They come back for a visit, or you go see them and next thing you know, you’re narrating again to them what you are doing.

“Who you talking to, Mom?” my daughter says 🙂

“I don’t know, anybody who’ll listen, I guess.” I reply.

Once a mom, always a mom.

Now the narration is happening with the grand-babies.

Maybe, it could be classified as a form of storytelling…

Do you do this too?