I was wondering…do kids realize what love is?
This came to mind on Easter Sunday as my family and I were sitting down to dinner at a banquet hall. My neices and cousin’s kids were running around the table when my 3 1/2 yr old neice ran up to me and said, I love you, then ran away.
I know my sister has always said it to her daughters, and since I have no kids…
Do kids really know what it is to love someone? Or is she just repeating what she has always heard??
I would like to think she really does love me. There is nothing like hearing I love you from a child.
Do any of us really know? A child knows what he or she needs to know – that love is a feeling that two humans share, that it is there even when something hurts the relationship, that it’s somehow more important than anything else.
My little buddy, closest thing I’ll ever have to a grandson, will be six at the end of the month. Last year his mother took him 700 miles away, and the evening before they left I went over to their home to say goodbye. He came trundling out of his bedroom, sleepy-eyed and solemn, met me in the middle of the kitchen floor, and said to me, “Uncle Dave, I’m gonna miss you very much.”
If that’s not love, I don’t know what you want to define it as.