Alex Nogués Otero is a blogger dad and writer that you can follow in Problems with Bubbles, this entry has come to him and I wanted to share it by contributing my (little, I know) sand grain.
He tells us to read the children at night, and you know what his main reason is? because it makes you excited, but there is more. If you remember, we have established parallels between the meanings of reading and family in ¿Can you read me a story ?, and we have even dared to explain 'How to feed the habit of reading at night'.
But why we leave justifications and explanations that are left over?, we read to children because we feel like it and they want ... Alex's reasons for reading to children they will not be different from those many of you You could point out as your own:
- In doing so I feel like I am building a cabin to shelter; a relaxing feeling that, in a way I don't control, I protect them.
It is precious, right? Because parents feel the need to protect children and many times we do not even know how to do it, but on other occasions we are exercising that important function. Like when we read: we give them warmth, we help them relax, we try to keep them away from scary dreams, we reaffirm our love ...
- Why the time stops. It is a magical moment in which everything is possible. In which we will always be alive, in which they will always be innocent. A space and a time to be immortal.
This is my favorite motive: the world can keep turning if you want because my children are with me at that moment, and that memory will remain in our minds
- Because it is an intimate and quiet moment. Everything quiets, relaxes. Chaos is ordered according to our standards, whether or not they make sense.
So quiet is that sometimes fathers and mothers fall asleep in the bed of our children, so much chaos is ordered that sometimes we go from silence to laughter because someone happens to tell a joke or make a clown for the that we have not had time during the day, what else give ten minutes of more or less sleep!
- Because I read things that I probably wouldn't read if it wasn't for them and I would be missing real jewels.
Ugh! I totally agree ... if it weren't for them I wouldn't have read The Secret of the Blue Egg, or The Ballet Shoes, or Once upon a time the family, nor of course I would have delighted with Wonders, and with so many others!
- Why share those worlds and adventuresThey help me to dream, to imagine, to get up, to laugh ... after all, to live.
... to live, something that sometimes we forget, don't you think so?
- Because I feel loved and needed.
Let us not deceive ourselves, we love children unconditionally and we know that we must repeat that we love them because it is so, but do we not also want to be loved?
- Because I need you to feel loved and to know that I need you by my side.
Beautiful
And why do you read to your children?
I leave you with a phrase from Alex that I found in his blog and it has reached my heart: 'That's how I feel when I write. The owner of my own world. A world that I think I control, although it often goes wild ... it could be said that I also have problems with bubbles'. It has come to me because I feel identified, although I would broaden the source of this feeling, and I would say that I also feel that way when I think ... and when I am with my children, because now that they are still small, many times I know that the world starts and ends inside the house, and I like that feeling.
