Sunday, January 18, 2009

What Love Means To Age 4 To 8 Year Old Children

We probably have over-looked many of these...... shall we catch up?

Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth it.
Touching words from the mouths of babes.
What does 'Love' mean?
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does 'love' mean?'
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'
Rebecca- age 8

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'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy - age 4

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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'
Karl - age 5

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'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissy - age 6

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'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri - age 4

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'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny - age 7

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'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'
Emily - age 8

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'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

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'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

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'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'
Noelle - age 7

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'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy - age 6

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'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'
Cindy - age 8

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'My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare - age 6

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'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine-age 5

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris - age 7

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'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day'
Mary Ann - age 4

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'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren - age 4

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'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)
Karen - age 7

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'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica - age 8

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And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

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When there is nothing left, that is when you find out that love is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot!

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps I am being a little sentimental, but, my goodness! I was a little teary on that one. Thanks for sharing...

Frances said...

It's OK, I almost cried as well. If there had been an accompanying video of them I would've bawled my eyes out.

Anonymous said...

Frances is so right. The same goes for me.

Anonymous said...

I don't care. That was beautiful. My stepson sent it to me so it meant even more.

Anonymous said...

the last one made me cry :< and I don't usually cry for these kind of things...

Anonymous said...

Ya.... you people who cried are overly sensitive wow... Or then I'm a heartless monster all the references were pretty obvious to why A child would think that? They learn about it through interactions with humans and what people teach them.. It's not like they sat around and thought about it for days. Also anyone who wouldn't go comfort a poor guy who lost his wife is a monster child or adult. That kids mom should of been ashamed.

Robyn said...

Dear anonymous on June 9th,

You are a dick-wad.

Sincerely, all the non dick-wads of the planet

Anonymous said...

Robyn, that was beautiful.

Josh said...

june 9th guy.

you completely missed the point of this. this page isnt meant to understand how or why a child would think this way. its to show how adults overthink the meaning of love and why we should just look around us and understand its meaning the way children do... observations.

Anonymous said...

Hey Anonymous, June 9th- Kindly go fuck yourself.

Anonymous said...

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy - age 4

That Quote. Handle With Care. Jodi Picoult. Page 172. End of Page. fail.

Bianca said...

To: Ya.... you people who cried are overly sensitive wow... Or then I'm a heartless monster all the references were pretty obvious to why A child would think that? They learn about it through interactions with humans and what people teach them.. It's not like they sat around and thought about it for days. Also anyone who wouldn't go comfort a poor guy who lost his wife is a monster child or adult. That kids mom should of been ashamed.

It isn't the fact that little kids say it, it's the fact that it makes you realize how some adults get so consumed in their busy life they forget it.

Anonymous said...

Are you guys all completely stupid?

I for one am not fooled for a second. This so clearly comes directly from a stupid chain email, and you're all idiots for believing a word of this. Hell, half of these children wouldn't even know the words that they are using, let alone what they mean.
This is so ridiculously obviously fake.

Cima said...

At what age we forgot all those meanings of love????
Lovedddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

This article was about "What Love Means to Age 4 To 8 Year Old Children". It was not about the feelings of the adults that read the article. I wish people would comment on the article instead of each others comments.
I thought it was nice to read.

Anonymous said...

this made my day...

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