Reema Ahmad > Quotes

“Trust in the fact that whatever has passed through you to your child, by means of stories, by means of setting an example to him by your own behavior, has found its way into the very being of your child. And whatever has taken root within your child will germinate and arise when it is needed. Your child will know what to do when he or she is called to it.”
― Reema Ahmad, Unparenting: Sharing Awkward Truths with Curious Kids

“In that sense, this is an invitation for you to know that you can only prepare the soil for your child's being, but how that being develops and what kind of a plant grows from it and bears fruit, depends on a thousand different factors. That depends on the sun, the moon and the stars, the air, the rain and nutrition the soil receives, and all of this is above and beyond you.
Your job is to simply keep ploughing; ploughing and tilling that is done before the plant starts growing. After it starts growing, all that is left to do is to prune, water and nourish the tender shoot and pray for good weather.”
― Reema Ahmad, Unparenting: Sharing Awkward Truths with Curious Kids