Welcome FlowerChild

I forgot about this song of Lenny Kravitz. Now that I read the lyrics a bit better, his Flowerchild is a bit like the next generation Flowerchildren in my ideal world.

Flowerchild

Dressed in purple velvets
With a flower in her hair
Feel her gentle spirit
As the champa fills the air
She wears rubys on her fingers
Tiny bells upon her toes
She’s the finest thing
I’ve ever seen
Love that ring inside her nose

Flower Child yeah
Flower Child yeah

She’s a psychedelic princess
On a magic carpet ride
And where her trip will carry you
Is somewhere you can’t find
She’s on a plane of higher consciousness
Meditation is the key
She’s got her shit together
Cause her soul and mind are free

Flower Child yeah
Flower Child yeah

She’s a child of Martin Luther
As a freedom fighter she
Speaks of liberation on the land
And on the sea
Her eyes are made of sunshine
And her lips are jelly sweet

Flower Child yeah
Flower Child yeah

Will children be happier when their mum or dad is always around? I don’t think this is best for all children. I know that in my case it would drive me crazy, if the only thing on my mind would be the children (I love them more than anything), cooking and cleaning. I would become very unhappy and that for sure is very bad for the children.

Luckily I can back-up my opinion thanks to Ellen Galinsky. She is the co-founder of the New York Families and Work Institute and conducted a five-year study on work and parenting, and the children’s perspectives on that. Galinsky claims that children don’t mind if both their parents work but they must make them (the children) number one priority. Galinsky believes the best parenting is intentional and when parents make their children their number one priority they will generally succeed as parents. Well that is good news.