Remember the day when your baby smiled at you for the first time, when she babbled her first words, when she took her first steps - I am quite sure that the early days of a child's development would have been filled with exciting moments of surprise and deep emotion.
As children grow older however, we might become less observant or moved by their daily growth, but it goes without saying that children never stop growing. It is my fervent wish that you become mothers who not only watch over all the wonderful changes your child is going through warmly and patiently, but that you also focus on developing your own abilities as an individual and as an educator.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
Japanese text:
AKACHAN GA HAJIMETE WARATTE KURETA TOKI, KATAKOTO NO KOTOBA DE SHABETTA TOKI. HAJIMETE JIBUN NO ASHI DE ARUKI HAJIMETA TOKI -. MAINICHI GA ODOROKI TO KANDO NO HIBI DATTA TO OMOIMASU.
KODOMO GA DANDAN O-KIKU NARU TO, SOSHITA KANDO O KANJIRU KOTO WA SUKOSHI NAKUNARU KAMO SHIREMASEN GA, KODOMO TACHI WA KAWARU KOTO NAKU SEICHO O TSUZUKETE IRU NO DESU. SONO KODOMO NO SEICHO O ATATAKAKU MIMAMORI NAGARA, JIBUN MO TOMO NI SEICHO SURU HAHAOYA DE ARI, KYOIKU SHA DE ATTE HOSHI TO OMOIMASU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 66 pg.)
As children grow older however, we might become less observant or moved by their daily growth, but it goes without saying that children never stop growing. It is my fervent wish that you become mothers who not only watch over all the wonderful changes your child is going through warmly and patiently, but that you also focus on developing your own abilities as an individual and as an educator.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
Japanese text:
AKACHAN GA HAJIMETE WARATTE KURETA TOKI, KATAKOTO NO KOTOBA DE SHABETTA TOKI. HAJIMETE JIBUN NO ASHI DE ARUKI HAJIMETA TOKI -. MAINICHI GA ODOROKI TO KANDO NO HIBI DATTA TO OMOIMASU.
KODOMO GA DANDAN O-KIKU NARU TO, SOSHITA KANDO O KANJIRU KOTO WA SUKOSHI NAKUNARU KAMO SHIREMASEN GA, KODOMO TACHI WA KAWARU KOTO NAKU SEICHO O TSUZUKETE IRU NO DESU. SONO KODOMO NO SEICHO O ATATAKAKU MIMAMORI NAGARA, JIBUN MO TOMO NI SEICHO SURU HAHAOYA DE ARI, KYOIKU SHA DE ATTE HOSHI TO OMOIMASU.
(Josei ni okuru kotoba 365 nichi, 66 pg.)
