Life Lessons You Can Learn From A Baby

Babies are adorable, aren't they? They're cute and cuddly and soft and fragile, and you'd think that because they are just beginning to experience the world that you've occupied for years, that maybe they might not be able to teach you anything, but interestingly enough, there's a lot that we can learn from babies. Here are a few key things:

Love Unconditionally

After their first startled cry, babies experience the world with a fresh innocence and awe which translates into a natural peace, and an unconditional trust in and love for those who take care of them. It's really a beautiful thing to witness.

As we grow older, mistrust taints our hearts and the stains left behind by bad experiences can colour the way we interact with each other. Babies, like dawn, remind us of fresh beginnings and the pure love which should never be lost.

Keep Your Chin Up

As babies grow, they begin to lift off the ground, first pressing against their hands and pushing their chest up off the ground, chin into the air.

The first time, baby off on his own, if you're lucky to witness it, he would look at you expectantly with adorably clear and fresh eyes, and if you make a big deal about it, there'd come the giggles.

Lifting off from the ground, getting the chin up, is a huge development for the baby, because it would signal better upper body strength and also more control of the neck. It's a moment of growth.

As adults we can learn this valuable lesson from babies.

Sometimes, in our every day lives, we encounter situations where we're down in the doldrums for one reason or another. In those moments, rather than lay around moping, we might be better served to push off from the ground, get our chin up, look the world in the eye and smile.

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Rise Every Time You Fall

Another milestone babies experience is learning to stand. Babies learn to stand on shaky legs. For the first part of their lives, they're carried everywhere, but a desire for independence is practically built into their DNA. Some time after they push off from the ground and get their chins up, then babies would learn to get up on hands and knees and creep. Then they would learn to stand. This progression does not occur over night, however, and as parents and guardians, we are often tasked to monitor babies vigilantly so that, as they move from one stage to another, we'd protect them accidents and catch them if they fell.

Even if they do fall however, babies are resilient. They never stop trying, and it's a huge triumph for them when they do learn to stand independently.

They'd be trying to walk independently next. And that would be another adventure of rising and falling and getting up again until they're running around on tiny, little legs while you're struggling to catch up with them.

We can learn from babies never to give up. Sometimes we may have goals in sight but may find that it's difficult to accomplish them. Or sometimes, we'd make a misstep and our circumstances change, we fall. While falls are painful, some more so than others, this still does not mean that we should give up on everything and wallow there. Like babies, we can try to stand again.

Be Inquisitive About the World Around You

Babies and toddlers are inquisitive, they want to learn everything about the world around them, so much so that you have to be on the alert all the time in the event that they pop something unseemly right into their mouths.

We could learn from babies to have that same sense of awe for the world around us, to be inquisitive about nature and the environment, not to destroy it, but to experience it as good and wholesome as it was intended.

These are some simple things that I think we can learn from the innocent among us. Come to think of it, these little guys and girls are wise little beings, aren't they?