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A Butterfly In The Wind, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"A child is. . . A butterfly in the wind, Some can fly higher than others;"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/wind

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A Hundred Years From Now:"A hundred years from now no one will remember how much money I had in the bank."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/hundred

Inspirational Categories:

Affection, Caring, Friendship, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Living Life To The Fullest, Love, Caring, Self Esteem, Self Worth, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Inspirational Poems, Parenting Stories, Parents & Parenting

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A Memo From A Child To A Parent, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Don't spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not to have all I ask for, I'm only testing you. Don't be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it, it makes me feel secure."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/memo

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A Mother's Midnight Prayer, Motherhood Poems, Parenting Stories:"Help me remember, when I feel it's a chore, The time will come when I'll hold baby no more, Asleep on my chest, the crib refused, the blanket, the pacifier, gone unused."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/midnight

Inspirational Categories:

Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting

A Pair of Muddy Sneakers, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"A pair of muddy sneakers left lying by the door, tell the tale of a daring journey or an ancient medieval war."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/muddy

Inspirational Categories:

Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Inspirational Poems, Parenting Stories, Parents & Parenting

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About Being Adopted, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"In class a teacher and her first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture had a different color hair than the other family members."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/nursing/inspiration/about.being.adopted.htm

Inspirational Categories: Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Inspirational Poems, Parenting Stories, Parents & Parenting

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After A While, by Veronica Shoffstall:"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning And company doesn't mean security."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/while

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Among The Many Angels, Inspirational, Touching Stories:"Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day it asks God,"They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"
http://www.nursefriendly.com/nursing/inspiration/religious.poems/among.the.many.angels.htm

Inspirational Categories:

Affection, Caring, Friendship, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Dependability, Honesty, Reliability, Virtues, Love, Caring, Self Esteem, Self Worth, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Inspirational Poems, Parenting Stories, Parents & Parenting, Religious Poems, Christian Stories

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Beatitudes For The Home, Religious Poems, Touching Stories of Love & Marriage:"BLESSED are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate and considerate, loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing. BLESSED are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/home

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Being a Parent, Motherhood Poems, Parenting Stories:"The house is untidy from window to door,
Marks on the walls and food on the floor.
The washing's unwashed
and the dishes are too,
There's scum in the bathroom
And fat on the stew."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/being

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Blank Page (The), Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"A child's life is a blank page. What will the first words be? Shut up! Get out of my sight. Go play. Don't touch!"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/blank

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The Burning Home, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"A couple, who we shall call John and Mary, had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good job and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and would be gone for several days. It was decided that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They hired a reliable woman to care for the children and made the trip, returning home a little earlier than they had planned."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/burning

Categories: Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories, Parents, Parenting, Parenthood

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Capture The Moment, Parenting Poems, Motherhood Stories:"The baby is teething, the children are fighting, and my husband just called and said to eat dinner without him. Okay, one of these days you'll shout, "Why don't you children grow up and act your age?"
….. and they will."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/moment

Inspirational Categories: Babies, Children, Infants, Kids Motherhood, Mothering, Moms Parents & Parenting

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Childcare IS Important, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Children are people who are going to carry on what you have started.
They are going to sit where you are sitting,
and when you are gone, attend to
those things which you think are important."

http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/childcare

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Children Are Like Kites, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"You spend years trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless. They crash ... they hit the roof ... you patch, comfort and assure them that someday they will fly."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/kites

Inspirational Categories: Babies, Children, Infants, Kids Love, Caring, Self Esteem, Self Worth Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Inspirational Poems, Parenting Stories Parents & Parenting

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Children Learn What They Live, By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.:"If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/learn

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Cord (The), Parenting Poems, Touching Stories:"We are connected, my child and I, by an invisible cord not seen by the eye."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/cord

Inspirational Categories: Affection, Caring, Friendship, Angels In Our Lives, Watching Over Us Babies, Children, Infants, Kids Motherhood, Mothering, Moms Parents & Parenting

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Excuse This House, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Some houses try to hide the fact, That children shelter there."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/excuse

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Great Truths About Life That Children Have Learned:"No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/great

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Hand Prints On The Wall, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor, I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/hand

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Handprints (Tiny), Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Tiny handprints grow so fast Their awkward groping soon will clasp A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand, A diploma, breifcase, wedding band."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/tiny

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Heaven's Special Child:"A meeting was held quite far from Earth, "It's time again for another birth," Said the angels to the Lord above, "This child will need much love." "Her progress may seem very slow, Accomplishments she may not show. And she'll require extra care, From folks she meets way down there."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/special

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Categories: Affection, Caring, Friendship, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting, Religious Poems, Christian Stories ******************************************************

How Much Does A Prayer Weigh, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"How much does a prayer weigh? There is a story of a grocery store owner who tried to weigh one."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/weigh

Inspirational Categories: Angels In Our Lives, Watching Over Us, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting, Poverty, Wealth & Riches, Prayers, Requests, Praying, Religious Poems, Christian Stories

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If I Could, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"I would teach each child to be positive, to smile, to love, and to be loved.
I would teach each child to feel warmly about the peers for whom the task of learning does not come easily."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/could

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If Roses Grew In Heaven, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"If roses grow in Heaven, Lord please pick a bunch for me, Place them in my daughters arms and tell her they're from me."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/roses

Inspirational Categories: Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Bereavement, Grief, Loss, Sorrow, Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice Poems, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting, Prayers, Requests, Praying, Religious Poems, Christian Stories

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Loan (The), Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:""I'll lend you for a little time, A child of mine," God said; "For you to love the while he lives, And mourn for when he's dead. It may be four or five years, Or twenty-two or three But will you, 'till I call him back Take care of him for Me?"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/loan

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Loving A Child, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Loving a child is the sweetest of loves
Yet it pales in comparison to the love from above
God gives us these children to have and to hold
Yet some never live to be very old."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/loving

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Mom Online Poem, (The), Parenting Poems, Raising Children Stories:"I can hear them calling...so they are fine "Where's Mom?" they are saying...Don't they know I'm online? We're hungry I hear...I tell them please hush Mom is online now, what is the rush?
http://www.4nursing.com/inspirational-poems-touching-stories-the-mom-online-poem.html

Inspirational Categories:

Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Computers & The Internet, Dependability, Honesty, Reliability, Virtues, Parents & Parenting

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Mother's Elbows On My Bed, Religious Poems, Parenting Stories:"I was but a youth and thoughtless, As all youths are apt to be; Though I had a Christian mother Who had taught me carefully."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/nursing/inspiration/mothers.elbows.on.my.bed.htm

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My Beautiful Baby Girl, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/girl

Category: Parents & Parenting

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No Charge, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"My little boy came into the kitchen this evening while I was fixing supper. And he handed me a piece of paper he'd been writing on. So, after wiping my hands on my apron, I read it, and this is what it said:"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/charge

Inspirational categories:

Angels In Our Lives, Watching Over Us Babies, Children, Infants, Kids Dependability, Honesty, Reliability, Virtues Love, Caring, Self Esteem, Self Worth Motherhood, Mothering, Moms Parents & Parenting

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Nobody Knows But Mother, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"How many buttons are missing today?
Nobody knows but Mother.
How many playthings are strewn in her way?
Nobody knows but Mother.
How many thimbles and spools has she missed?
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/but

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Resignation As An Adult, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"I am hereby officially tendering
my resignation as an adult. I have
decided I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old again."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/resignation

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Send Your Children To Bed With a Kiss, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Oh, mothers, so weary, discouraged,
Worn out with the cares of the day,
You often grow cross and impatient,
Complain of the noise and the play."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/send

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Slow Dance, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/dance

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Ten Commitments For Parents, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"I will always love and respect my child for who she is and not who I want her to be."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/commitments

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Tiny Handprints, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Tiny handprints grow so fast Their awkward groping soon will clasp A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand, A diploma, breifcase, wedding band."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/tiny

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Today I Left Some Dishes Dirty, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Today I left some dishes dirty. The bed got made around 3:30. The diapers soaked a little longer, The odor grew a little stronger."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/dirty

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What Is A Girl? Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"She's a bundle of sweetness
and brightness and fun
The beauty of springtime,
the warmth of the sun."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/what

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What Women Do, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"WOMEN have strengths that amaze men. They carry children, they carry hardships, they carry burdens, but they show happiness, love and joy. They smile when they want to scream. They sing when they want to cry."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/do

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What You Should Know About My Child, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Remember that he is, first of all, my child. Let me see him smiling in his sleep and let me think about how handsome he is and not about how delayed that smile was in coming."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/should

Inspirational Categories: Angels In Our Lives, Watching Over Us, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting

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When You Thought I Wasn't Looking by Mary Rita Schilke Korzan ©1980, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Here's a message every parent should read, because your children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say. When You Thought I Wasn't Looking by Mary Rita Schilke Korzan ©1980, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/looking

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Why Mothers Cry, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories: "Why are you crying?" a son asked his mom. "Because I'm a mother," she told him. "I don't understand," he said. His mom just hugged him and said, "You never will!"
http://www.4nursing.com/inspirational-poems-touching-stories-why-mothers-cry.html

Inspirational Categories: Affection, Caring, Friendship, Babies, Children, Infants, Kids, Bereavement, Grief, Sadness, Sorrow, Love, Caring, Self Esteem, Self Worth, Motherhood, Mothering, Moms, Parents & Parenting

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Why Parents Get Gray, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an urgent problem with one of the main computers He dialed the employees home phone number and was greeted with a child's whispered, "Hello?"
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/gray

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Women Are Beautiful, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"They smile when they want to scream. They sing when they want to cry. They cry when they are happy And laugh when they are nervous."
http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/beautiful

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