Children are like clay in Potter’s Hand; we spend lot of time in teaching them dos and don’ts to shape their future. Yet to your amaze even they can in turn teach you so many things. Paulo Coelho once said that “A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

Some of you might be thinking that those little monsters are just good at messing up things and pissing you off with their endless prattle, series of question as if you are an encyclopaedia. You are right, I agree! They are nosy. They are naughty but they are treasure of happiness.

If you manage to learn even one fourth of their attitude, believe me, your happiness would double. They can teach you to enjoy and value every moment, to throw away anxiety and worry, to laugh openly, the list of their preaching can go on endless.

Here are 10 awesome things parents can learn from children:

10. Trends and Technology

You must have experienced the desperation of kids for mobile phones. Even six months old jumps off their mothers hand if lured with mobile. From the one who could hardly manage to crawl to the toddlers and the school going kid, all of them have strong fascination for gadgets. They grow with technology. Unlike us, their very entrance in this world is supported by technology. They grow up with TV remote in their hand, they see technology everywhere around hence along with learning to crawl and walk they learn to operate these gadgets also. No one teaches them to operate mobile phones. Even an eight year old can debate with you on which phone is better. Hence we can surely learn trends and technology from our kids as they may be better than us.

9. Kids never hesitate!

They have their naïve childish attitude, far away from negativities of world like ego, hatred etc. They say what they feel. If they are scared to go to loo at night they would probably wake you up and ask you to accompany them. If they are happy and excited about something they would march around house, singing and dancing. They may ask you to plan next holiday on moon. They never step back from playing with your maid’s son. They never hesitate to do anything. They are fearless. This attitude lets them experiment beyond their limit and gives them satisfaction. Adults should also learn the art of being fearless and open from children as this brings inner confidence and satisfaction.

 8. Curiosity

Kids are curious about anything and everything around them. They try to see the hidden wonders. They ask endless question and try to grasp the mechanism of everything around them. Right from how does the clock works, to why are you watering these plants,… they are curious about everything. However adults often lose interest in their surroundings. They believe in abstraction phenomenon that is they only pay attention to things what is of use to them ignoring all the background details. Learn to see the world around you through your child’s eye and you will automatically stop to smell the rose. Children are the ones who actually believe that it is not about reaching to the destination, the journey to your destination makes it incredible.

7. Forgiveness

Kids fight with their friends, shout on each other and depart with promise to never talk again. Yet another hour they are found hands in hand, playing with each other. They do get angry, agitated and furious with their friends, siblings or parents yet they know how to forgive. Parents can learn forgiveness from their kids, this will help them brush off all the grudge and worries and attain self satisfaction and inner peace.

6. Living Every moment!

There is a famous saying, “Life is a journey, not the destination.” And the small kids truly understand this .They go around swinging and dancing, enjoying every moment. They never moan over the mistakes they did in past or the task they are supposed to do in future. They just enjoy themselves. Parents should learn the art of living from their kids. This will help them to let go their worries and enjoy every moment.

5. Fearless and Carefree attitude!

We as an adults have several fears like fear of losing our jobs, reputation, respect etc. These fears are more a restraints to our lives. They prevent us from experimenting and hence growing.  A kid is far away from these fears. He leads a carefree life with nothing to worry about. This lets him retain his innocence and lead a peaceful life. A kid has fear of nothing, that’s why he often gets hurt while playing. But adopting his fearless and carefree attitude in your own mature way would surely help you in attaining satisfaction.

4. Unconditional Love

Love is not a give and take relationship and an unconditional love of small child for his mom and dad is perfect example of it. He loves his parents not because of the reason that they are the one who take care of all his necessities. Actually he is not smart enough to understand anything. They just love their parents and all others whom they like, without expecting anything in return. One can learn the real meaning of unconditional from their children.

3. Unconditional Faith

You must have seen that the child giggles when his father throws him up in the air. He is not at all afraid to fall and get hurt yet he has blind faith on you that you are going to catch him no matter what happens. Most of adults do not understand the meaning of faith and trust. This is the reason behind breakups, divorce and other domestic conflicts. Joint families are splitting up because we adults fail to trust and have faith in each other. We can learn to have the beautiful unconditional faith in our near and dear ones from those small kids.

2. To be what you are!

One of the most irritating behaviour associated with the grownups is show off. They often boast about their belongings, achievements, fiancé, wealth and what not. Actually the growing age is directly proportional to this habit of boasting. You will never see a small kid pretending to be royal but you may find an eight year old girl imitating to be a princess. Children act the way they are. If they are agitated they would switch to sabotage, if they are happy they would dance and sing around, they would never boast about themselves and would never pretend to be what they are not. On the contrary adults often spend lots of time in pretending to be what they are not. We all should learnt the lesson of accepting the reality from out kids.

1. To be Happy for no reason!

We all want to be happy yet being an adult we seek reasons to be happy. However you must have seen kids dancing and swinging, banging things all over the house for literally no reason. You just call a small kid playing in his mother lap and he would respond as if called for a lucky draw. Their jollifying behaviour does not need reason. They know how to enjoy and praise every beautiful moment they get to live. Although they are far away from understanding and maturity but they are quite affluent in art of living. We all should learn this from our kids that our happiness is entirely up to ourselves. One does not need reason to be happy.