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Good Afternoon. Here is a great thought for the day:

Time is the raw material of your relationship with your child and must be guarded at all costs. It's true what they say: a bucket with a hole in it gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over. Life will shout a thousand demands to take you away from time spent with your child. If you permit the urgent to rule, you will lose time you can never recover or catch with your hand. What happens in the changing life of your child today will never be repeated. All the gold in the world cannot buy back either the little delights of the day or the big pleasures that happen without announcement or a plan. You simply have to be there.

As a parent, you are the leader for your child, and your every action is being watched. This is the most important job you'll ever have. The quote of a print we have at Successories says it best:

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove. But the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child."

Someone sent me a beautiful poem the other day titled "Little Eyes Upon You." I don't know who wrote it, but I'll share the last verse with you:

There's a wide-eyed little boy
Who believes you're always right.
And his eyes are always open
While he watches day and night.
You are setting an example.
Every day, in all you do.
For the little boy who's waiting
To grow up and be like you.

Never forget... "To the world you may be just one person... but to one person you might just be the world."

Have a wonderful day.

"Each morning is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When the sun rises tomorrow this day will be gone forever, in its place will be something you have left — may it be something good. Follow your heart, it knows what to do."

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