Flowers for a Child?
You often hear about gifting flowers to adults, romantic situations, funerals, and many other reasons but rarely hear about bestowing flowers upon children. That is sad if you ask me, especially if you have a daughter.
Your children often do some pretty amazing things in school, sports, or even clubs or church functions they belong to. We congratulate them with words, a hug, a high five or what not but seldom if ever consider gifting them congratulation flowers. Why is that? It doesn’t make much sense to me why we don’t. We should. We send flowers to various other people in our lives to represent the way we feel, why should it be any different with our children? And wouldn’t it bring a bigger appreciation to our children the power of flowers?
Imagine your child achieved an honor roll status or even accomplished maintaining a goal set little or big in school. You could really show your child just how proud you are of them and excited for them in their achievement by having congratulation flowers delivered to them at school! Imagine how proud they would feel when flowers arrived just for them. Imagine the praise they would even receive from their classmates and the envy their classmates would have. Congratulation flowers will definitely make your child feel extra special that day and for a long time afterwards. That single act can make a huge impact on your child’s life and how they feel about achieving set goals. So next time your child achieves something incredible, show them how much it really means to you and just how proud you are of them with having flowers delivered to them.
January 15th, 2010 at 3:49 am
My girls got their first flowers when they turned 13. I had the flowers delivered to them at school on their birthdays. Having all of the other kids see them arrive only added to their pleasure. After that, I got them flowers every year. They both loved the special gift and the attention that went along with it.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I didn’t get my first flowers until I was 18 and they were from my beau. There were several events before that when I would have loved to have gotten flowers. I don’t think my Mom even considered it. We had flowers growing all over the yard but I don’t remember many of them making their way into the house. Of course, that could have been because there were 6 kids.
January 18th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Do you know a child who hasn’t picked flowers out of the yard and presented them to his Mom? Children can appreciate the beauty of flowers as well as any adult. Maybe more so. We get upset when we see dandelions but children only see the beauty of the yellow ‘flower’. I guess it’s true what they say about beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
January 19th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Caro, the bouquets from my kids are some of the best I’ve ever received because they came straight from the heart. My baby picked me a bunch of dandelions without stems. I wondered at first what to do with them but finally figured out that I would float them in a margarita glass. She was so pleased with the finished product that she went next door and picked some tulips the same way. By the time she got them inside the petals were mostly pulled off. I just set the wine glass on a doily and sprinkled the petals all around the base. It was really quite lovely and we were both pleased with the results. Children ‘get’ the ‘value’ of flowers.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:32 am
If you want your flowers really appreciated, give them to a child. They will not only appreciate them, they will never forget who gave them.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:48 am
Flowers have a universal language that speaks to hearts of all ages. Even young children can appreciate the look and smell of flowers.
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:51 pm
We’re all children at heart. I just don’t know many people who dislike flowers. They may not have an interest in cultivating them, but everyone I know loves plants and flowers. They have a beauty all their own and they call to us. No matter what the age, flowers convey the message.