think the same is true of children and kindness. Once you slow down and stop trying to change a child’s behavior so much, your sensitivity for their love grows by volumes. You see the child rushing over to help her friend who fell off her bike; you see the child collecting limes from a tree for dinner; and you see all the helpfulness in her eyes when she grabs the spatula from your hands and says, “Mama, that’s not how you flip pancakes. Here, let me show you how.”
