Written by Dianne Gray for Room 217 Foundation/ Canada
It is an amazing thing how the threads of our simple rituals can become the very fabric that keeps us together when our lives seem to become unraveled.
Many of us as families have a routine with our kids at bedtime, one that at times is both sweet and exasperating, depending upon our own level of exhaustion at the time. Do you have a routine with your loved ones? For me, a daily event meant the singing of three bedtime songs to my then two-year-old son Austin. Now, if you’ve ever heard me sing, you would know this is not a good thing! He didn’t seem to mind my off-key voice, however, as he requested the same three songs night after night for as many years as I can remember: The Barney Song (his title for the I Love You song in the TV show), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the hymn, Amazing Grace.