Having a daughter is an extra trill for any mother. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to condone favouritism of a child based on gender. In fact I’m all against such attitudes /practices in cultures that sees one gender more precious than the other. When we have children, they are our flesh and blood and really now does the baby’s sex make it any less a apart of us? The answer – NO!
So back to my original point. As precious as any child would be, women love having daughters because they can doll them up and do girly things together. Well there’s not standing in your way if you have a son and would like to do the same, but fact is boys grow up to be young men and young men tend to want to break away from their mother’s after a while. Girls on the other hand, never seem to ever want to let go of their parents. They have that strong bond- one between mother and daughter that is ageless – the fact that women even after marriage like to live near to their parents’ is already a sign!
Anyway growing up and even now I was always fond of the whimsical. My mother would read me stories about fairies, pixies, sprites, goblins, etc and I fell in love with the fairy world. Perhaps that’s what sparked the respect and love I have for nature – fairies…they are intricately involved in nature and without nature, there would be no fairies.
Now if you have young children, this is a great way to cultivate the ‘eco-warrior’ attitude in them. In general, girls love playing with dolls and a doll house is always going to be a part of her dream. But you’ve got to realize that doll houses aren’t always the greenest of toys. Most are made from toxic plastic and the sustainable wood ones are quite expensive.
So why don’t you get you kids to appreciate nature and deepen your bond with them by taking the weekend to build a fairy garden that they can then tend to daily.
Fairy gardens are fun for kids because it’s kind of like a building a doll house. You can make a simple one in a large pot or you have involve daddy and the boys to build an elaborate one in your garden.
Either way, your kids will learn to respect nature, nature their imagination and widen their points of view.
