I just read... Son and Daughter Day is a great day for parents to connect and reconnect with their children in a meaningful way. It’s also a great way for parents to show their children just how much they love and care for them and to show them just how important they are in their lives.
For many families this will be the case. I am lucky to have both a son and a daughter and while they are very different people I cherish what both mean to my mothering. Like me they both love words and reading and this makes for many good discussions. They both love boats, like their father and I struggle to understand this obsession, but it also makes for many interesting discussions.
Literature is full of stories of fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, starting with the bible stories about Cain and Abel, Moses, Joseph, right up to the parable of the prodigal son. Shakespeare continues this with plays such as Macbeth. Folktales are full of good and bad sons and daughters. And as Fathers Day approaches your library will be full of stories about fathers and their sons and daughters.
See these for bible stories
• One City Two Brothers by Chris Smith and Aurelia Fronty tells how to settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.
• The Two Sons by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen is the story of the prodigal son.
A favourite folktale that does this well is
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
If you would prefer to just celebrate all that is good about sons and daughters then Ruth Doyle and Ashling Lindsay do this so well in
Enjoy your sons and daughters today and everyday, read to and with them because before you know it, they will be telling you they are grown up and they will start parenting you!
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