Let Your Children Become the Teachers

Children are fascinated by the ordinary
and can spend timeless moments
watching sunlight play with dust.
Their restlessness they learn from you.
It is you who are thinking of there
when you are here.
It is you who are thinking of then
instead of now.
Stop.
Let your children become the teachers,
and you become the student.

- William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching