Words of Advice ? I Turn To The Great Kipling !!

Another day goes by , and we are so caught up in our hectic lives we seldom seem to sit down anymore and actually have  a conversation with our own family . Social media is the culprit !! But saying that it is always my top priority to talk to my children and make sure I hear them and give them all the good advice I can . Any good supporting mother does that . Don't we always want our children to have our own qualities . That is the reason people are not so keen on adopting , because they want their own flesh and blood to take traits of themselves forward . Though ,how much of that is true , I wonder  . We want our children to be little mini me's , replicas of us , but however , that doesn't happen . Of all my 3 children , only one I think is most like me :( , which also might change since she's still young . The other two are truly their own people . But nevertheless families stick together and if I can teach my children anything it's loyalty and love . One of my all time favourite poem is by Rudyard Kipling and it's the most beautiful poem I ever learned at school when I was eleven . I remember I tore out the page from the book , after the year was over and kept it in my diary and I still have that page with me today .
In Celebrity Big Brother , this year when each one is sent a letter from home . Calum's mother put this poem in her letter and everyone was so moved , however,  alot of the people even thought Calum's Mum wrote this poem for him ..sweet lol .. but she didn't !!
Okay so I really want to share it with you all , maybe you have read it before , or maybe not , but it's such a brilliant poem , you can never tire of it !!

If—

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

  Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

  If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Hope you enjoyed reading this . Def . words I will be giving my son and my daughters as well , Why Not :)

Till the next time , keep smiling !!

#Peace & Love