What Love Means
December 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Inspiration
This came to us as one of those popular email forwards we all receive. It’s worth taking a few minutes to read the true wisdom of our children.
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” These are some of the answers they received.
‘When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.’
Girl - age 8
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‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’
Boy - age 4
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‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’
Boyl - age 5
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‘Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs..’
Girl - age 6
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‘Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.’
Girl - age 4
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‘Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.’
Boy - age 7
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‘Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss’
Girl - age 8
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‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.’
Boy - age 7 (Yikes!)
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‘If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,’
Girl - age 6
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‘Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.’
Girl - age 7
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‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’
Boy - age 6
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‘During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.’
Girl - age 8
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‘My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.’
Boy - age 6
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‘Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.’
Girl - age 5
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‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.’
Boy - age 7
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‘Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.’
Girl - age 4
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‘I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.’
Girl - age 4
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‘When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.’
Girl - age 7
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‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.’
Boy - age 6
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‘You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.’
Girl - age 8
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And the final one…
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said…
“Nothing, I just helped him cry.”
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I think that’s great. My mom is a kindergarten teacher, and I’m sure her class would have similar answers.
These are funny, wise and touching. We can learn so much from children.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.’ Oh yeah?
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That’s beautiful. Children are sometimes so on the mark, they see things so simply but truly. Well, and sometimes they’re hilarious…
‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’
lol
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Sometimes there’s so much wisdom in a child’s words. This is truly amazing! I like the phrase about one’s name in a loving person’s mouth the most! I’m still stunned by the fact those are the words of a 4 year old child.
Sometimes elders need to learn from the younger ones. There is a lot to learn from the answer of the child.
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Great! Very funny. Add one …
“Love is all my family sit around the table have supper at weekend.”
Women, age 38
Listening to kids talk about love can be funny and overwhelming as well. I always admire children because their insights are the most sincere and they have purest of intentions. Just like the Bible says, if we want to enter the Heavens, we need to have a child-like heart. Truly, there is so much to learn from children.
‘‘If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,’’
I like this description of love. It’s the most difficult thing to do, but the most meaningful way to express your love to somebody. If you can love somebody you hate, you’re capable of loving a person.
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