For some of the kids the time they spend at camp is time away from a not-so-great home life. These kids don’t want to see it end. Others, however, get a bit homesick. They want to be at camp and they have a great time, but late in the evening (the closer we get to bedtime) there are always a few that come to me saying they want to go home.
This was what I thought eleven year-old “Carly” was going to do one Tuesday night. She came to me and asked if she could call her mom. Thinking she was going to want her mom to come and get her at that late hour I told her I thought we should wait until morning—that we didn’t want to wake her up and cause her to think something was wrong. “Carly” quickly replied that her mom got off work (from a hospital) at eleven, so she would be on her way home.
I didn’t really have any logical comeback for that, but she
could see I was still hesitating. That’s when she said, “Miss Darla, I don’t
want to go home. I’m having a great time. But I really love my mom and I just
want to hear her voice.”
Talk about melting my heart! I couldn’t get the phone in her
hand fast enough. J
She spent less than five minutes talking to her mom; telling her what she’d
done so far and asking how her dad and little brother were doing. Then she told
her mom she loved her, that she would see her on Friday, and then she handed me
the phone, gave me a hug, and ran off to get ready for bed with the other girls.
Besides just being a really sweet story, I decided to share this with you this because I want you as parents to make
it your goal in life—every single day of
your life—to make yours a voice your children ‘just need to hear’.
Make yours a voice that calms, encourages, reassures,
affirms, disciplines in love, teaches, protects, and directs.
Love,
Momma D
Copyright 2017 Darla Noble. No part of this can be used or copied without permission from the author.
