The crazy thing about babies

I’ve read quite a few great things about parenting over the last few years since becoming a father, but this short paragraph by gowns (via Kottke) made me tear up a little and it’s worth quoting in full:

man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond that it’s really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really it’s them learning about existing in a three-dimensional space and how they can navigate that space, but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them.

Our little one isn’t a baby anymore, but reading to her is still one of my favorite things to do.

→ life → love → family