Beautitude For Parents
Blessed are the parents
who can laugh at themselves
for their children will laugh
with them and not at them.
Blessed are those
who can see the world
with the freshness and excitement
of a small child, for they will always
be young at heart.
Blessed are the parents of babies
who can wake up joyful and clear
of eye at 5:45a.m., for they will
have to get up at that hour anyway.
Blessed are they who spend
adequate time caring for their
children, during infancy and childhood,
for they shall be spared many teenage problems.
Blessed are the parents
who take their children with fresh eyes.