Love As A Child

5:22 p.m.

3 Nov 2008

Cited from a email

What Love means to a 4-8 year old . . 

Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth
it. Touching words from the mouth of babes.

A group of professional people posed this question to a
group  of 4 to 8 year-olds,'What does love mean?'

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone
could have imagined . See what you think .

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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend
over and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even
when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8


Stephen Ho : 真爱......是付出，甚至是牺牲。

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'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is
different.You just know that your name is safe in their
mouth.'

Billy - age 4

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是平安，安定，安全感

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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on
shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是互相委身，欣赏，吸引，取悦，接纳。 

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'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most
of your French fries without making them give you any of
theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是付出并不求回报。 

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'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'

Terri - age 4

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是在困苦中依然喜乐。 

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'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she
takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the
taste is OK.'

Danny - age 7

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是无微不至的关心，就是要对方好。 

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'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get
tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you
talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when
they kiss'

Emily - age 8

'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you
stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是当某些时候情况不再乐观，可依然选择互相
            守候。 

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'If you want to learn to love better, you should start
with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6

(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是选择爱一个也许令我们不舒服，甚至是讨厌
            的人。 

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'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he
wears it everyday.'

Noelle - age 7

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是鼓励，建立对方。 

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'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who
are still friends even after they know each other so well.'

Tommy - age 6

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是不在乎认识多久，只在乎互相委身多深入。

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'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was
scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my
daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'

Cindy - age 8

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是当情况不乐观甚至是当所有方面对不倾向
            对方时，我们依然选择支持，鼓励，陪伴对方。

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'My mommy loves me more than anybody

You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'

Clare - age 6

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是陪伴，陪伴，在陪伴。 

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'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'

Elaine-age 5

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是将自己最好的献给对方。 

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and
still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'

Chris - age 7

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是选择接纳所有的缺点，并随时准备包容一切
            过犯。 

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'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you
left him alone all day..'

Mary Ann - age 4

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是无论之前被对待的情况是如何地恶劣，却依然
            选择拥抱。 

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'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all
her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'

Lauren - age 4

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是不留余地奉献自己所有的，同时对方也感恩接纳
            作回应，哪怕是次等的，因为这次等的是对方仅有的。

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'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and
little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是充满激情的，感性的，满腔热情的。 

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't
think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是选择接纳，包容。 

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'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it.
But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'

Jessica - age 8

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是承诺，并且要做出行动，不断让人感到我们的
            承诺。 

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And the final one

The winner was a four year old child whose next door
neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost
his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old
gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the
little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

Stephen Ho : 真爱......是同甘共苦，共患难，陪伴不离弃。

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