Childhood doesn’t wait

 Childhood doesn’t wait. It slips through fingers like water, no matter how tightly you try to hold on.

One day they’re building forts out of couch cushions and asking you to check for monsters under the bed. And then somehow, without you noticing, they’re slamming doors and asking for more freedom than you’re ready to give.

Let them be little while they still are.

Let them wear mismatched clothes and believe in magic. Let them cry over broken crayons and dance in grocery store aisles. Let them take up space and ask too many questions. Let them laugh too loud and run too fast and get dirt under their fingernails.

The world will ask them to grow up soon enough.
Don’t rush it.
Don’t clip their wings before they learn to fly.
Let kids be kids while they still can be.