Stella is such a lovely girl at the moment. I find myself looking at her when she's sleeping and wondering how she got to be so big so quickly. It seems like only recently she was a squirming little babe in arms. In her waking hours she constantly amazes me. She generally seems to love school. I'm often worrying, is she learning enough, quickly enough, but I really shouldn't because she seems happy and confident and that's got to be the most important thing. It's so thrilling to see her reading fairly fluently now. She still prefers to be read to, but she can tackle most words and is gaining confidence reading on her own, especially at night time when she should be going to sleep!
She constantly surprises me with her maturity too. The other day she came out of school saying that they had had a yoga teacher who had given each of them a petal and asked them to make a wish. She didn't want to tell me her wish at first, which was fine. I became an aunt the other day and so said that if I had a wish I would ask for my neice to be well and have a good life, thinking that was a pretty good wish! Stella then said, that actually her wish was that all the poor people in the world had food and clean water and suddenly I felt incredibly selfish!!
She's always coming out with great answers in the children's liturgy at church too. When asked what the best lesson they had ever learnt was, other children said things like learning to ride a bike, to walk etc, Stella piped up "learning to love"! A couple of weeks later when asked what they were doing for lent, other kids were giving up chocolate, or chattering, but Stella said she wanted to pray more. I'm not sure where she gets these answers from within, but she knows how to make a mother proud!!
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I prefer to be read to and I'm a bit older than six. I found some education advice once that suggested we don't read to our children enough when they're older, and we should read to them right into secondary school because it's a pleasure to listen. It must be a pleasure, otherwise why does Radio 4 have so many books that it reads for adult listeners.
Stella is really an amazing girl, with that kindness heart in just 6 year old. I'm so proud of her when she thought about all the poor people in the world had no food to eat and no clean water to drink, and her wish was for those people to have food and water. I'm so moved!! I bet she would even share her food and water to the poor people.
If every adult in the world could think just the same, like stella's, this world would be much more beautiful and peaceful!!
Fran, I think you and Tim are great parents. She is so smart that I wouldn't worry too much about how much she has learned from school.
I would just want her to be happy and healthy everyday in my life.
Please tell little Stella that her first nanny, auntie Alice, still misses and loves her a lot, a lot. And uncle Matt also talked about her sometimes that we might want to have a little baby girl just as sweet as her.
Many many loves,
Alice
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