Think Of the Children As Roses

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Anansi is pleased to support the following guidance from an old song by Burl Ives.

Think of the children as Roses
Fragile as flowers they live.
If you help a child or a rose,
You get back more than you give.

If you had a flower,
That you wanted to bloom;
Would you keep it from sunlight
Locked away in some room?

Children are flowers,
Their bloom yet to come.
Your love is their water,
Your wisdom their Sun.

Think of the children as Roses
Fragile as flowers they live.
If you help a child or a rose,
You get back more than you give.

How many faces
Has each of us seen,
On bitter people,
Defeated and mean?

Weren't they once children,
With dreams of their own?
But a dream left untended
Is a dream never grown.

Think of yourself as a gardner,
Imagine each child as a seed.
Sprinkle them gently with kindness and love,
Love is what everything needs.

Love is what everything needs.