I Believe That Children Are Our Future

I Believe That Children Are Our Future

The opening lyrics of the song: "The Greatest Love Of All" song by many artists most notably George Benson and Whitney Houston, are about Children being our future. The song itself is more about you believing that what's inside of you is and should be "The Greatest Love Of All."

I wrote about "The Greatest Love Of All" in a previous blog, but now I want to focus on the Children:

"I believe that children are our future;

Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Give them a sense of pride, to make it easier;

Let the children's laughter remind us how we use to be"

The last line; "Let the children's laughter remind us how we use to be" is my favorite. Do you remember laughing as a kid? We laughed at the stupidest things. We made faces so others would laugh. We even did pratfalls so we and others would laugh. 

Then we got older and all that stopped - WHY? I'm not saying we don't laugh anymore. What I am saying is we don't laugh enough. A really good Comedian can make us laugh. Animals can make us laugh. Even watching someone else take a fall can make us laugh. However, when did we stop being the source of laughing at ourselves?

I've said in a previous blog that when someone asks me how I value my life, I tell them by the number of times I laugh. Children (especially when they are very young) need to see adults laugh. They need to see adults laugh at themselves. They need to see us make faces, do pratfalls or any other stupid thing to make us and they laugh.

The other lyrics above are so true:

"Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Give them a sense of pride, to make it easier"

Could you imagine a country full of kids that had parents who could teach them well and then let them lead the way? Could you imagine a country full of kids that had parents who could show them all the beauty they possess inside? Could you imagine a country full of kids that had parents who could give them a sense of pride? 

I assure you we would have a very different world if the next generation of kids all had parents who did what those beautiful lyrics of this song asked them to do. The parents who raise their kids that way are the ones who also say:

I Believe That Children Are Our Future